Posts by Shawn C
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By smell of the bark and or wood (and obviously this is when you are perhaps given or find a dislocated chunk o' wood) I can detect cherry, maple, sassafras (easy), walnut, catalpa, red oak, basswood, aspen, buckeye and mulberry. Hey, not a big list, but it has been thru experience that I know I can do this. Also, I imagine any cedar would be very easy to detect, especially western red (smells like pencils), and eastern aromatic (smells like gerbils).
I was joking about the taste.
I was joking about the taste.
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White willow bark is where Aspirin is derived, is it not?
I do have many ailanthus trees around here, as they tend to grow along highways and roads, like a weed. I have never cut one, although I have been tempted, as they seem to grow nice and straight. do they carve well? The wood itself stinks too, eh? I have never smelled one, or at least, did not connect the smell with the tree.
I have an ornamental pear in my yard, and althoug it is beautiful to look at, the spring blossoms are putrid to smell. It literally smells like rotting flesh.
Catalpa has a very reconizable smell when cut.
red oak smells like butt.
White birch has a sweet smell when cut.
I do have many ailanthus trees around here, as they tend to grow along highways and roads, like a weed. I have never cut one, although I have been tempted, as they seem to grow nice and straight. do they carve well? The wood itself stinks too, eh? I have never smelled one, or at least, did not connect the smell with the tree.
I have an ornamental pear in my yard, and althoug it is beautiful to look at, the spring blossoms are putrid to smell. It literally smells like rotting flesh.
Catalpa has a very reconizable smell when cut.
red oak smells like butt.
White birch has a sweet smell when cut.
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