Easy way to ID black locust-UV light

[Littledog]

I saw a video of black locust glowing under a UV light. It’s one of very few woods that will react. So I had to try for myself, I bought a 365nm UV flashlight on Amazon and wow it looks amazing. Here’s a few pieces beside some ash and elm to compare

 

[gzecc]

Wow.

 

[begreen]

Locust gets glowing reviews! It's essentially a big pea plant.

 

[Simonkenton]

That is fascinating! My favorite firewood. Sadly, all my locust trees died in the blight, and in a year all the locust will be gone.

 

[stoveliker]

Locust gets glowing reviews! It's essentially a big pea plant.

Lol, that's a denigrating characterization for such good firewood ;-)

 

[SpaceBus]

Locust gets glowing reviews! It's essentially a big pea plant.

Learned two new things, locust fluoresces and is a legume bearing plant.

 

[Osage]

Learned two new things, locust fluoresces and is a legume bearing plant.

It actually produces it's own nitrogen like beans or any legume and grows very fast. I planted a small 3 ft tall sapling 5 years ago. About 15' tall now. A fast growing tree that produce hard wood.

 

[Simonkenton]

They do grow fast. I had hundreds of 'em 25 years ago when I bought my property. The blight came through 20 years ago and killed them all. The only ones I have left are sprouts coming out of stumps, where I cut the tree down 24 years ago. Weird tree, the small ones have huge thorns.

 

[EatenByLimestone]

If id known that in college I would have figured out a way to make furniture out of it.

 

[EatenByLimestone]

They do grow fast. I had hundreds of 'em 25 years ago when I bought my property. The blight came through 20 years ago and killed them all. The only ones I have left are sprouts coming out of stumps, where I cut the tree down 24 years ago. Weird tree, the small ones have huge thorns.

Check out the thorned version of the honey locust

 

[kennyp2339]

Explains my increase in clinkers when burning that wood

 

[Littledog]

Got some nice pics of my stack 🤩

 

[Rickb]

Thats folking cool!

 

[kennyp2339]

Hearth Halloween Special!

 

[Simonkenton]

That black light is making me freak out. Turn on, tune in, and drop out.

 

[SpaceBus]

Got some nice pics of my stack 🤩

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That's really cool. It makes me wonder if there is some kind of parasite or something that can "see" the fluorescence in the wood in gaps in the bark.

 

[EatenByLimestone]

Looks like the sap wood doesn't glow.

 

[patrickk222]

i'll be a monkeys uncle i never knew of locust bein flourescent and i know they grow like wildfire were i live