We were doing a little grass mowing and tractor work for a couple neighbors Sat. 1 yard had a big pecan limb down, which we have plenty of. Kept the big wood, put brush on pile with tractor. The other neighbor had a little corner he wanted cleaned up. Pulled up briar and privet hedge. In the back was a big tree that had blown over. We managed to get it dug out. Cut the stump off, it was a big chinaberry, got about 16' of nice size trunk. Pecan on bottom. I think it's a softer wood.
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Are you talking about the green leaves on the trunk? That is actually resurrection fern. It forms a mat on the limbs of mostly pecan trees, seen some on a big post oak we cut too. When there is a drought, the fern dries down and looks like it's dead. Let it rain and in a few hrs it's back green again. This is some we had back in '21. Notice how some of it had dried out from the sun. 5 days later we had a rain shower...
We have lots of pecan here, some claim it's great to cook with. I have sold some for that purpose. As for Chinaberry, I don't think it is very good firewood. Quite a lot of those were planted on old homesteads in the early 20th century as ornamentals. The limbs break off easily in wind storms. My uncle used to could shoot the chinaberries with his index finger pretty accurately and forcefully, like a slingshot, bending his index finger backwards as a sling. Translation: that's the kind of thing he did as a youngun, inventing ways to pass time. He must've had long and real flexible fingers, I never could get much velocity!
Never heard of Chinaberry before, but a scores a score nonetheless. Not to mention helping out the neighbors.
