Cutting limbs and trees off a fence. Damaged tree that I'm limbing and going to cut down. First glance I figured maple, but limbs are wrong... Sky shot is trying to show limbs you can zoom in on. Cut face.... Is it mulberry? Bark doesn't look like the little bit of mulberry I've had before...
Could be the native red mulberry as opposed to the white that has become so prevalent. The forest setting is correct.
First thought was sweet gum cause there is that broken branch laying there on it but still looking and thinking
And after I zoomed in I see that's not even a sweet gum branch or leaves. The leaf stem is too long. I would say yes red mulberry. Those dried leaves even look right as much as I can tell dried out. That's not a common tree around here although it is native, just don't see many in the woods.
I would say mulberry, internal has the same look as B.locust and Osage Orange. But a little different bark design.
Cool. Thanks yall. Too bad it was damaged. Someone has said they like mulberry for smoking, and I believe they said that it smells like cotton candy....but not sure which variety they were speaking of. Anyone know if this variety is similar?
The heartwood says mulberry but the bark really didnt strike me that way. Rather scarce tree around here.
Mulberry goung by the wood and bark also, those 2 dead leaves on the trunk look like mulberry leaves.
The international tree of all fence lines. A leaning, split, fence wrecking..... Mulberry. More than you can keep up with around these here parts. Got one that fell in the wind across my north line just last week. Nuisance that burns nice
I can probably count the number of mulberries I've seen around here on both hands, so they dont give us much problem. The top had broke out of that tree so it was just a few limbs on the fence. But the ashes are starting to show their weakness around here....have had several on the fences in this strip over the last year or two. This big elm was from back in the big ice storm. It broke over a big musclewood that was still connected and living. Cut up some of that as well. Need to get this fence fixed for re-uping the costshare program.
Meant to add, it was a species filled day. I cut on Ash, elm, persimmon, musclewood, red oak, white oak, mulberry, tulip poplar, and some other very light unknown tree.
Went back in there late today to check a few things on the fence for supplies. Took the maul, wanted to see what the elm would be like. Not sure what variety, but I've hit worse elm. Heck I've hit worse white oak and hickory. Had to whop'm a bit, but got them quartered...nice half to 2/3ish of a load...
I guess I could be convinced that its mulberry...bark doesn't look quite right to me...I was trying to decide if elm was a possibility...not convinced there either.
I tried to get a pic of the twigs with buds, but the phone had a hard time focusing on them. I'll try to get one next time I go down there if i think about it.
Looks like you have some nice Red Elm. Red Elm that grows in the woods generally splits very well. It is one of my favorite firewood. Unlike American Elm or white elm which rarely splits easily in any growing condition. Sometimes when a Red Elm is first cut down people will mistake it for Walnut when it is wet. Once dried it looks more like Butternut, soft brown color with lighter sapwood.
