Wood Identification

[Kent Reisdorph]

I have 5 acres of trees, but my wife saw a guy cutting down a tree on the side of the road and stopped to talk to him. He gave her these:

Picture This isn't much help here as it comes up with lots of different results. Mostly it says white mulberry or bradford pear. Other Picture This results include elm and box elder. This is in Middle Tennessee. Any guesses?

 

[Lou Jacobs]

Pictures didn’t come through on my thread. Holly in a snowstorm?

 

[Kent Reisdorph]

Great guess! But I'm pretty sure it's bradford pear. My wife went back and got a picture of the leaves.

 

[Michael Anderson]

I would’ve guessed Mulberry from that photo, but if you found some leaves then that’s probably a better indicator.

 

[Leo Van Der Loo]

Looks like Mulberry to me, but I don't have Bradford pear experience, so I wait and see what the leaves look like.

Here are White Mulberry leaves.

 

[Gabriel Hoff]

Looks like Mulberry with the way the bark looks. Pear has a more uniform bark and has a darker color in the heartwood.

We have three pear trees in our backyard along with many mulberries in the 20 acre field behind the property, so I know what they look like

 

[Kent Reisdorph]

Couple more pictures.

 

[Kent Reisdorph]

Looks like Mulberry with the way the bark looks. Pear has a more uniform bark and has a darker color in the heartwood.

We have three pear trees in our backyard along with many mulberries in the 20 acre field behind the property, so I know what they look like

I have red mulberry on my place but no white mulberry that I can compare to. The red mulberry bark is quite different but I would expect that.

 

[Michael Anderson]

Interesting—certainly looks like Bradford Pear on the lathe!

 

[Brian Gustin]

My initial reaction to the original picture was "Apple, or some sort of Fruitwood like it" Just from the way the branches come out of the trunk and the bark of the tree... I'd presume Mulberry counts as fruitwood?

 

[Walt Ahlgrim]

In my experience Mulberry wood when freshly cut is bright yellow much like Osage a few days later it is orange and after a year it will be chocolate brown.

What I see on the lathe looks like Braford pear’s offspring gone wild and invasive species call a Callery pear.

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Walta

 

[Kent Reisdorph]

Finally got the picture of the leaves from my wife:



It might be a Bradford/Callery hybrid as Walt said.

 

[Gabriel Hoff]

Finally got the picture of the leaves from my wife:

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It might be a hybrid as Walt said.

Ok, from that photo of the leaves that is definitely some kind of Pear. I guess you have to see the leaves to know...

 

[Leo Van Der Loo]

Finally got the picture of the leaves from my wife:

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It might be a hybrid as Walt said.

Kent those are not Mulberry leaves, they look like Pear leaves or even more like Apple than Mulberry, the picture of the wood being turned is certainly not Mulberry either, not yellow enough.

Thanks for showing all the pictures and the Leaves picture, I'm still not to old to learn nieuw things and will never know them all

 

[Kent Reisdorph]

Yep, it's a Bradford or Bradford/Callery cross perhaps. Picture This identified as Bradford Pear by the leaves.

 

[Kent Reisdorph]

It's just a bowl. I neither love it, nor hate it.