First one has really black bark with very white split grain, smells sour. The lighter bark one smells really good somewhat stringy.
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claydogg84
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claydogg84
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Bark looks like it could be Honey Locust but the wood seems really white - Perhaps it's just the lighting.
I thought HL too but not if the wood is white.
White wood is usually something in the willow family, that includes the poplars.
And a bad smell. Although HL is a swamp type tree. And there's no tree with white wood that's super heavy.
I agree with the Ash.
Dunno on top pics.
White wood is usually something in the willow family, that includes the poplars.
And a bad smell. Although HL is a swamp type tree. And there's no tree with white wood that's super heavy.
I agree with the Ash.
Dunno on top pics.
paul bunion
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Number 1 is red maple with a black fungus on its bark. Do you live near Morristown? I've seen trees with that black fungus in Jockey Hollow.
BamaScroungr
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I thought maple too for the top pic. Didn't know it was a fungus, but yeah these maples are completely black in some places, in other areas the black looks like it's been lightly spray-painted on.
paul bunion
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I'm not sure if it a fungus or mold or scale or blight or whatever but that would exactly describe what I have seen.
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Paul Bunion, I'm in Mount Laurel which is next to Moorestown both sounding the same but I'm in the one near Killadelphia. It was a neighbor curb scrounge. He said they were ash and maple as well. I will take a closer look at the bark but I didn't think it was fungus as it appeared normal really just black. The split inside is white like a willow and reminds me of when I was a kid and we debarked small willows and made fishing poles. Is the maple with fungus a bad thing to burn or keep around in a stack? In the meantime the ash was a pretty good score. A little bit of green moss but smells good and I picked stuff with no knots for
Pennsyltucky Chris
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