Is This Black Walnut?

[ponyboync]

Scrounged it up today. Leftovers from tornado damage in NC.

 

[Thistle]

Yes.

 

[will711]

Yes.

+1

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Looks like it to me too.

 

[RNLA]

Me too, and we don't grow it much here in Wa. I have never cut one down.

 

[ponyboync]

Thanks dudes.

 

[Wood Duck]

Maybe it is too late, but I agree. Black Walnut. Nothing else has such a dark heartwood, and the light sapwood and bark are just right for BLack Walnut as well.

 

[Jeff S]

I wasn't aware that Black Walnut grew that far south.

 

[Wood Duck]

I wasn't aware that Black Walnut grew that far south.

Uncle Sam says it does. Check out this site:

http://esp.cr.usgs.gov/data/atlas/little/

It is a great site as long as you know that Black Walnut is Juglans nigra.

 

[mywaynow]

Black Walnut has s distinct smell when cutting/splitting too. I stacked a bunch on the piles earlier this year and couild smell the walnut pile from 50 feet away. I find it is a pleasant odor.

 

[Thistle]

Black Walnut has s distinct smell when cutting/splitting too. I stacked a bunch on the piles earlier this year and couild smell the walnut pile from 50 feet away. I find it is a pleasant odor.

I think so too.Some describe it as 'tea leaves' when sawing,shaping or splitting it.Some even smells like lemon almost I've noticed.

 

[Creekyphil]

Thats a great link Wood Duck, thanks for posting. It does have me a bit confused, though, as I have cut Black Walnut regularly in the Boston area. In fact, I'm in the middle of splitting about 2 cord right now. If it turns out that what I'm splitting isn't Black Walnut, I have no clue what else it could be.

 

[ponyboync]

I wasn't aware that Black Walnut grew that far south.

Uncle Sam says it does. Check out this site:

http://esp.cr.usgs.gov/data/atlas/little/

It is a great site as long as you know that Black Walnut is Juglans nigra.

And according to wikipedia the largest known black walnut tree is living in Oregon. That's along way from the area on the Uncle Sam map.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juglans_nigra

 

[jackofalltrades]

That is indeed black walnut. We grow it here in Mississippi as well. It splits and works real easy, but I have not burned any of it yet. I can report on that next burning season.