Can ,you ID it?

[chipper1]

Sour gum?

 

[chipper1]

Sassafrass.

That's what I was thinking when he said we would know if we saw the leaves, but black gum would be the same.
Fun stuff, cutt'm down and split'm up James .

 

[moondoggie]

Keep trying

black walnut me thinks

Bark looks like Persimmon, and that would be my guess. What do I win, the last thing I won was a free weekend in Key West the weekend of Harvey, it was all inclusive too.

River birch

Black Walnut

I believe it's an Ash of some sort.


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Black gum

Mulberry?

i gave you a clue over in GMT.

Sassafrass.

 

[muddstopper]

Sourwood

 

[James Miller]

American sycamore

 

[abbott295]

Native to Western North Carolina, good sized, leaf would give it away, after everything else that has been guessed, I give up. Carolina Spruce?

Hackberry? But the leaf is not such a give-away.

Sweetgum then.

 

[moondoggie]

Sourwood

You sir have the correct answer!!

 

[muddstopper]

what did I win?

 

[moondoggie]

what did I win?

 

[abbott295]

Well, I would like to know how the leaf would be such a give-away, because I have both sourwood and persimmon and I haven't figured out how to tell one from the other by the leaves on seedlings / saplings that have no fruit or flower structure on them and the bark hasn't developed characteristics yet.

Thanks, abbott295

 

[unclemoustache]

Dang it. I was thinking Sassafrass or Persimmon.

 

[Waitingoneden]

You sir have the correct answer!!

Never even heard of that one. Peaked my interest now you have.


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[stumpy75]

Never even heard of that one. Peaked my interest now you have.

+1 !



Actually, I have heard of sourwood, but know very little about it...

 

[moondoggie]

+1 !



Actually, I have heard of sourwood, but know very little about it...

Good firewood. Smokes very little coals up nicely but can be like splitting sweet or black gum. It dries quickly. The wood smells like fresh cut raw potatoes when it is freshly split. The leaves will hydrate you and are a dietetic if chewed or made in to a tea or tincture. The leaves are sour almost like a lemon.

I have read that the early moonshiners of early Appalachia preferred the wood from sourwood to heat their stills because of the low smoke and the abundance of trees available in the forest.

 

[moondoggie]

Well, I would like to know how the leaf would be such a give-away, because I have both sourwood and persimmon and I haven't figured out how to tell one from the other by the leaves on seedlings / saplings that have no fruit or flower structure on them and the bark hasn't developed characteristics yet.

Thanks, abbott295

I guess I am just used to seeing them all over. The bark looks very different from persimmon after you get familiar with both species IMO.

 

[moondoggie]

http://healthywithhoney.com/what-is-sourwood-honey/

Here is a good link with info on the tree and the great tasting sourwood honey.

 

[muddstopper]

sourwood grows great fishing bait too