Can I burn lilacl?

[gyrfalcon]

This summer I really went after the horribly overgrown lilac bushes around my house and barn, and cut down quite a large number of trunks, both alive and dead. It's very hard and dense wood, judging by the effort involved in sawing it by hand. Can I burn it, assuming time for drying out for the live stuff?

 

[DriftWood]

Lilac burns just fine. I have some, not very much as the stems are small and I cut back the Lilacs about 25% after they flower each year. (broken link removed), under usual conditions tend to be shrubs with many stems, but they respond readily to training into tree forms.. If its wood it finds its way into my stove.

 

[colsmith]

Haven't burned lilac, but have burned some honeysuckle. I think of the two as similar just because I have grown them together in several places! The honeysuckle is also VERY dense and burns just great. Too bad they are just big bushes and not trees, what a fragrant and beautiful woodlot you could have . . .

Basically I assume that unless a wood is poisonous in some way then it is good to burn. (I have cautiously burned some cherry laurel, which is slightly toxic.)

 

[jeffman3]

NO

The wood burning police will come and confiscate your stove! :lol:

I don't see why not. I would be willing to burn any non poisonous dense wood, assuming my wife isn't allergic to it. (I can't burn any coniferous trees. My wife is deathly allergic to them) It may turn out to be wonderful firewood, though I have no experience with that. I just stated burning myself. :cheese:

 

[wg_bent]

I burned some this year.. like 5 pieces. The stuff is very heavy, so I assume dense. Honestly, if it's wood it goes in my stove and it produces heat. I'm not a wood biggot. LOL