Is this Hedge?

[metalfingers]

At a buddy's house in central Illinois. He said a few people told him it's hedge but it doesn't look like it to me.

 

[Rangerbait]

I'd say you've got Hedge there! Any of the horse apples around on the ground?

 

[metalfingers]

I'd say you've got Hedge there! Any of the horse apples around on the ground?

No, no hedge apples whatsoever. That's the other thing that threw me off

 

[Rockey]

Grows like a large shrub, right bark texture, right grain. Id say hedge fo sho. Isnt it just the females that produce apples?

 

[Paulywalnut]

Not all trees grow the apples. It sure looks like Hedge. Great burning, will be like firecrackers when you open your stove door.

 

[Rangerbait]

Come to think of it, looks like Tree of Heaven to me...want me to take it off your hands? It's useless.

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[Firefighter938]

I'm thinking mulberry, but great score either way.

 

[fespo]

Looks like Hedge to me.
Any thorns on the branches?

 

[Rangerbait]

I'm thinking mulberry, but great score either way.

Here's the Mulberry we have in WV...it pukes fluorescent yellow chips when you put the saw to it, but it does oxidize to a similar copper shade after a couple of months.

 

[Tar12]

I am originally from Illinois and have cut tons of hedge from wind breaks that are all over the farm country there and that is indeed hedge! You need someone to haul that off? lol

 

[Corey]

Not sure how hedge grows up there, but that is a 'classic' example from here... bushy, multiple trunked 'tree', twisty, multiply branched chunks of wood with hardly a straight run...one piece of firewood with 2, 3, 4 or more branches lopped off. Great wood there!

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Another vote for Hedge....the twisted bark isn't seen on Mulberry like that although they are often good at confusing people trying to make a positive ID!

 

[Bmore]

Hedge will be bright yellow when freshly cut. Haven’t had any mulberry.

 

[Tar12]

Hedge will be bright yellow when freshly cut. Haven’t had any mulberry.

Nice score! Hedge trees that size is where its at!

 

[Rangerbait]

Hedge will be bright yellow when freshly cut. Haven’t had any mulberry.

That's an awesome score! Hedge and Mulberry are in the same family...never burned any of the former, but Mulberry burns lava hot!

 

[D8Chumley]

A buddy that burns told me mulberry is junk. I said let me know I’ll take it off your hands lol. I have some that’s seasoned enough to burn this year, just waiting for it to get cold enough to burn it. Used a little last year when it got real cold, good stuff!

 

[warno]

I'm kind of thinking mulberry. All the hedge I've seen here in IL is really yellow inside and the mulberry I've seen is more like that deep purpleish color.

 

[Tar12]

Resplit a piece and post up some pics...hedge and mulberry both will darken up a lot after split and setting awhile.

 

[Rangerbait]

Resplit a piece and post up some pics...hedge and mulberry both will darken up a lot after split and setting awhile.

Yep...they will both oxidize and turn darker.

 

[Wingman]

It looks like the mulberry I see and cut around me. I say wait for spring to see if you get mulberries or nothing (granted some of it is still standing). Either way, it's a great wood.

 

[warno]

also if it's hedge there should be apples still on the ground if that remaining part is still alive. The hedge apples take forever to rot and last well into the winter.

 

[fireview2788]

Male and female trees, the females are the only ones who produce the apple. That is a male Osage orange (aka hedge).

http://www.gpnc.org/osage.htm

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[Manly]

Does this not look similar to Black Locust? Not so much the tree but the wood itself.

 

[Tar12]

If you look carefully at the leaves on the ground you will see many Hedge leaves in the mix

 

[heavy hammer]

Looks like mulberry but unless u have some leaves hard to tell they are both in the same family. Regardless both are very good wood, u have any pics of leaves.