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Jclout
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I've heard you can tell dogwood by it's 'bark'
Thistle
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Very dense.An old chart I remember seeing while in the Ozarks many years ago showed Dogwood #1 in heat value (was lots of it growing down there) with Hickory & Black Locust tied for a very close 2nd place.Years ago before 'modern' dense plastics it was the preferred wood for shuttles used in textile weaving,golf club heads & a few other uses needing a dense shock resistant wood that wore smoother with age.
For some time now there's been a severe blight of some sort (anthracnose,maybe?
) causing large scale death among native Flowering Dogwood trees.At parents acreage up til about 15 yrs ago there was a bunch of closely related but much smaller Roughleaf Dogwood shrubs that formed a small border between the grassy area & woodland edge out near west property line,not many over 6-7 ft tall.All seemed healthy then gradually in a few years they all just disappeared.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roughleaf_Dogwood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowering_Dogwood
For some time now there's been a severe blight of some sort (anthracnose,maybe?
) causing large scale death among native Flowering Dogwood trees.At parents acreage up til about 15 yrs ago there was a bunch of closely related but much smaller Roughleaf Dogwood shrubs that formed a small border between the grassy area & woodland edge out near west property line,not many over 6-7 ft tall.All seemed healthy then gradually in a few years they all just disappeared.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roughleaf_Dogwood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowering_Dogwood
bogydave
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Very dense.An old chart I remember seeing while in the Ozarks many years ago showed Dogwood #1 in heat value (was lots of it growing down there) with Hickory & Black Locust tied for a very close 2nd place.Years ago before 'modern' dense plastics it was the preferred wood for shuttles used in textile weaving,golf club heads & a few other uses needing a dense shock resistant wood that wore smoother with age.
For some time now there's been a severe blight of some sort (anthracnose,maybe?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roughleaf_Dogwood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowering_Dogwood
Yes. I hope all those dogwood really were dead and hadn't just experienced leaf drop from the dry summer. We are losing so any of our trees to diseases.
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