Unique Maple

[rottiman]

took this 26" maple down due to storm damage. She was @ the end of her useful life anyway. Awesome pattern, really neat with the sunlight hitting it.

 

[DexterDay]

Looks sweet. What type of Maple??

 

[rottiman]

Old sugar maple

 

[thewoodlands]

took this 26" maple down due to storm damage. She was @ the end of her useful life anyway. Awesome pattern, really neat with the sunlight hitting it.

Spalted Maple.


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[wood spliter]

The green is verticilium wilt. I beat up the spelling

 

[Thistle]

A few years ago I seen Maple with that coloration/patterns being sold as Ambrosia Maple in a few woodturning supply catalogs.

 

[rottiman]

took this 26" maple down due to storm damage. She was @ the end of her useful life anyway. Awesome pattern, really neat with the sunlight hitting it.

Spalted Maple.


zap

Zap, what do they call trees that have an enlarged section of trunk in a normally straight section of trunk, best way to describe would be that it looks like a large tumor on a normal section?

 

[Thistle]

took this 26" maple down due to storm damage. She was @ the end of her useful life anyway. Awesome pattern, really neat with the sunlight hitting it.

Spalted Maple.


zap

Zap, what do they call trees that have an enlarged section of trunk in a normally straight section of trunk, best way to describe would be that it looks like a large tumor on a normal section?

That's a Burl.

 

[thewoodlands]

took this 26" maple down due to storm damage. She was @ the end of her useful life anyway. Awesome pattern, really neat with the sunlight hitting it.

Spalted Maple.


zap

Zap, what do they call trees that have an enlarged section of trunk in a normally straight section of trunk, best way to describe would be that it looks like a large tumor on a normal section?

That's a Burl.

+1

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[rottiman]

Strange thing about this tree was that the patterning was only up the first 2 feet or so off the stump. Rest of tree was solid and clean. Picture isn't that great. The pattern really jumps out at you in person.

 

[tickbitty]

Wow, you should give/sell that to a woodturner! They make beautiful stuff out of wood like that.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

My wife would shoot me if I tried to burn something like that. lol Last spring she found a stump from a maple I cut and begged me to cut a slice off so she could have some of that beautiful wood. But then, she also found a small limb from a cherry that had this beautiful red moss. She carried that thing all the way to the house and it now lays in her flower garden.