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cygnus

cygnus

Feeling the Heat
Oct 23, 2010
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Here is something from the wreckage of Irene. I've tried using the primary sites to identify this but I'm not confident at all. The splits were easy work, had the 'rosy glow' of cherry heartwood with bark that includes the horizontal markings to back up the idea. But, I haven't seen cherry with bark so plated and the leaves don't seem right. Any ideas?
 

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Locust. Not sure which variety, but locust. Someone else should be able say what kind.
 
Well, there sure is lots of Black Locust around. It's my first time with HL and I wouldn't have thought it would be so red.
 
Brewmonster said:
+1 for honey locust.
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That was my guess too, but there are many "urban" varieties of locust that are thornless. If it has the monster thorns, which usually get mentioned, I would agree.

Does it have unmistakably large thorns?
 
cygnus said:
Well, there sure is lots of Black Locust around. It's my first time with HL and I wouldn't have thought it would be so red.
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Pretty ain't it? lol....I wish I only had Locust of any variety. So easy to split, and near the top for btu's
 
Honey Locust, and it appears to be a thornless variety - you'd have noticed the thorns because they'd be really big.
 
No thorns on any of the rounds I found. Not sure if they existed on the tree in question. Thorns would have been the giveway.

Funny too, I spotted several HLs in Central Park NYC two days ago. Tons of huge thorns!
 
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