Went out and cut a wind blown tulip poplar and a mimosa up. Should make for some great kindling next year. Anybody ever burn mimosa?
mimosa that i have seen never gets big enough to cut for firewood.we have lots of tulip poplar though
Around here mimosa is used in parking lot plantings. I guess they are grown somewhere else and trucked in.
Believe it or not we cut down a fairly large mimosa back in January for a lady in a nearby town. It had four trunks, and they were around 16" each at the base! It is very heavy, wet wood, with fat growth rings, so I'm betting its a lot like burning willow or tulip..... gave it all away to a guy right down the road from the job site.
One of the best flowering trees! The blooms (which smell great) really bring the hummingbirds in in droves... One of my favorite trees. The leaves fold up at night by actually growing closed along their stems!!!
It is an alcoholic beverage. A glorious one at that. Champagne and fresh orange juice? Heck yeah, it's good stuff. That's a nice load of Wood. It all adds up. What I think is funny is that right now, my wife is discovering the 3-4" branch pieces I put up in this year's burning stacks. She loves that there are smaller pieces to go with the big splits. I've gotten to the point that I save those small pieces for her to load while in the woods.
So how does mimosa burn? I got some here in SE PA. It splits super easy. It was a triple leader I believe. I must have 1/3 cord of it. Butt piece was AT least 24" inches diameter, 16" long, had to rip it in half to load it into the truck, and I am not a weakling. It was big as far as mimosas go around here. Sent from my SM-J727P using Tapatalk
I’ve burnt some but that was before I cared about how things worked Planted two in my yard and they did well for years until an early fall heavy snow did them in. As I remember very late for the foliage to sprout and lost their leaves very late also. Pretty flowers and unique foliage. Touch the leaves and they close like a Venus flytrap. I’ve seen some big ones in peoples yards. Ct is pretty far north for these trees though. On the ragged edge of viability. The wood is probably like willow. Not worth much of anything but it burns.
