Locust?

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3fordasho

Minister of Fire
Jul 20, 2007
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South Central Minnesota
CAM00028.jpg CAM00029.jpg CAM00030.jpg CAM00031.jpg I think this is Honey Locust, but the leaves seem differently shaped than others I've come across.
No thorns. Bark seems a bit off too.
 
My honey locust looked like raw salmon when I split it, the bark was also a bit different...... But I'm not sure what you have, I'm just sayin......
 
My honey locust looked like raw salmon when I split it, the bark was also a bit different...... But I'm not sure what you have, I'm just sayin......


That's what I'm thinking too, the wood color is off, the leaves are a little too big and pointy, bark has too much "potatoe chip" texture... There were locust like seed pods around, but instead of the long bean like pods they were rather short and fat.
 
thats not honey locust but no clue what it is
 
I do not know what it is either , but I do not think it is either type of the locust.
 
The leaves are throwing me off. They're not locust leaves. Could it be a fruit wood of some kind? Cherry or hackberry?
 
Now that I've bruised up the bark moving the rounds, I'm thinking honey locust, the redish brown just under the bark is just like other honey locust I've previously processed. The rounds I split yesterday have dried enough to reveal the typical honey locust salmon color. The leaves really had me wondering.DSC03381.JPG
 
Does it smell like Honey ? the stuff I had did have a sweet scent.
 
I have no clue...Ive never seen it. Just know it has similar seed pods. And the leaves look like it.


Hmm, might have a winner here, the description of coffeetree seed pods were right on with what I found on the ground.
The leaves have the right shape and size, and I'm in the small part of MN were they're known to be found....
 
Looks to be good stuff by the numbers -- similar to ash in density and green moisture content.
 
Hop hornbeam ?
 
Kentucky coffee tree for $20.00
Good call, I think that's what it is, in fact after googling the images of the bark and leaves it looks exact. Can't you make a decent cup of java with the pods?
 
Is that wood vey light weight?? It looks like what I was told is ButterNut or White Wallnut. Does it drop green nuts that look like a oval shaped black wallnut?? The inner part looks just like butternut, I have a couple of those trees in my yard here in Mid Michigan.
 
That last bark shot looks like the locust family to me. How about another shot of the bark a little farther away? Also, give it the nose test. I always say BL has a "sweet, farm smell"...lol.
 
I'm sorry but that is not black locust....BL is yellow behind the bark and has distinct criss cross lines on the bark....
This is black locust in the back of the truck.... This is honey locust on the floor .....image.jpgimage.jpg image.jpg
 
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