Does this look like Russian olive?
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This stuff seems like a soft wood but extremely difficult to cross cut and mill. It’s very very gummy and wants to grab the chain
Looks like regular olive to me.
I've never seen Russian Olive but according to a few garden websites Russian Olive has bark that looks like this which looks different to what you show.
I've never seen Russian Olive but according to a few garden websites Russian Olive has bark that looks like this which looks different to what you show.
Ok. Thanks bob
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Kinda looks like willow leaves to me. Maybe it’s a youngin, willow is a soft wood.
That's willow.
It was a huge tree. Started branching off very low. At head height. Probably 7’ diameter. Thanks guys. Is will a hard wood to cut? Because this stuff is.
Russian olive does not get anywhere near that size. Its a small tree, or more often a twisted gnarly shrub, maybe 5-6" tops.
Nope. Not a Russian Olive.
The leaves are gray colored, the bark is considerably different.
EDIT: The leaves you showed are opposite, which proves for certain that it isn't Russian Olive, which are alternate.
I've only cut up a few, and I can't recall what the wood looks like. They are not soft and gummy, though. Slow growing and very tough trees, at least in these parts.
The leaves are gray colored, the bark is considerably different.
EDIT: The leaves you showed are opposite, which proves for certain that it isn't Russian Olive, which are alternate.
I've only cut up a few, and I can't recall what the wood looks like. They are not soft and gummy, though. Slow growing and very tough trees, at least in these parts.
That might depend on where you try to grow them. They get much larger than that around here, but still not big enough to call a shade tree. I think 14" to 18" stump is about the biggest I can remember cutting up.
Ok cool. Thanks for the info guys
Russian olive
Not exactly thorns, but they are pretty damned prickly to work on.
Russian olive
Ummm... Nope. That's not a Russian OIive.
This is:
https://www.nature-and-garden.com/gardening/russian-olive-invasive-control.html
https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Plants/Dont-Plant-Me/Russian-Olive
Are they invasive in your area? Click link and check out your county!
https://www.eddmaps.org/distribution/uscounty.cfm?sub=3022
Nope, it sure is Russian olive. In my job with DOT we did a lot of Russian olive control, and I can tell you that this is what it looks like in real life......I took those pictures yesterday 5 minutes from my house.....
Better pics from the same place......looks the same to me........
I'll sure concede that the flowers look pretty similar. The leaves you have pictured do have a distinctly different color from the plants we get around here.
Let's key it out:
http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrolog...lobes=unlobed&leafedges=entire&thickness=thin
I'm down to leaf shape in the link above. Check my work!
Let's key it out:
http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrolog...lobes=unlobed&leafedges=entire&thickness=thin
I'm down to leaf shape in the link above. Check my work!
Thats mostly the phone doing its thing to "optimize". The leaves are not as glossy as the pictures show.
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