Quaking Aspen

[thewoodlands]

This is the wood for the shoulder season next year that we have up top that needs to come down then stacked, not sure when this will happen but thanksgiving weekend would be good.

The second picture the stack is in the background.

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[FLINT]

we don't have quaking aspen around here. looks like it splits nice.

how does it burn? about like tulip poplar? or do you not have that up there?

 

[thewoodlands]

we don't have quaking aspen around here. looks like it splits nice.

how does it burn? about like tulip poplar? or do you not have that up there?

Some people up here call it poplar, so I guess it burns the same.


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[FLINT]

yeah my dad and uncle always called it popple

when we moved down to va - they called tulip poplar popple also, so i figured it was similar

 

[billb3]

I've found a couple different kinds of poplar on my property.
A whitish fairly smooth barked one that the leaves quiver very easily in the slightest breeze, a greyish one and a brown barked one that the bark is heavily fissured. All the leaves quiver a little bit. I never get back in the Spring to see the differences in blossoms to figure out which is which. Most of the ones I find dead are quite rotten so I tend to ignore all of them.
I do have a white one that I have walked around for 50 years. I'm fairly certain it sends shoots up from its roots 50/60 feet away, too. I've been tempted to cut it down because those shoots come up right in my garden and can grow 2 - 4 feet in a Summer.

 

[thewoodlands]

I've found a couple different kinds of poplar on my property.
A whitish fairly smooth barked one that the leaves quiver very easily in the slightest breeze, a greyish one and a brown barked one that the bark is heavily fissured. All the leaves quiver a little bit. I never get back in the Spring to see the differences in blossoms to figure out which is which. Most of the ones I find dead are quite rotten so I tend to ignore all of them.
I do have a white one that I have walked around for 50 years. I'm fairly certain it sends shoots up from its roots 50/60 feet away, too. I've been tempted to cut it down because those shoots come up right in my garden and can grow 2 - 4 feet in a Summer.

I think you have Quaking Aspen, that is what these leaves do.


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[Backwoods Savage]

Around here our aspin doen't quack. It is the ducks that do that. We do have lots of popple though. ;-)