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- May 14, 2011 at 4:11 pm #42715
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InactiveCan any of you northeast logging folks identify this tree. I have been clearing some of my land recently and have come across a bunch of saplings with these type of leaves and buds. What I really want to know is if the trees are acceptable to use as fire wood.
John
May 14, 2011 at 6:35 pm #67272mitchmaine
Participanthard to tell by the picture, john, but it looks like birch to me. maybe black birch. if that is so, most might consider it a weed tree, but it grows quick enough and can get big enough to burn. we cut and burnt grey birch on our farm all the time, but really just to get rid of it. might be elm, but looks more birch to me.
mitchMay 14, 2011 at 8:31 pm #67267john plowden
ParticipantI”l guess yellow birch -John
May 15, 2011 at 10:13 am #67278Anonymous
InactiveI was thinking this morning that a picture of the bark probably would have been helpful. Mitch, that was kinda what I was thinking, about it being a “weed” tree. There were so many small ones, and none of any real size. They did seem fairly dense though, so I wasn’t sure. John
May 15, 2011 at 10:45 am #67271Jim Garvin
ParticipantMy guess is it’s a black birch. Here is an article on one…
http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Plants.Folder/BlackBirch.html
May 15, 2011 at 2:40 pm #67279InactiveJim, thanks for the link. Based on that I would have to say the bark is not correct for the black birch. I will try to get some pics today if it ever stops raining.
May 19, 2011 at 2:15 pm #67275Baystatetom
ParticipantLooks like its in the birch family. Black birch has a strong wintergreen scent and flavor. Yellow birch a slighter scent and flavor. White birch or gray birch have no wintergreen scent at all.
when saplings Cherry is often mistaken for birch that has a unpleasant scent and flavor. Use all your senses. As far as firewood, if it burns use it. Worse case it burns fast and you need more of it but then it will likely be a hot fire and burn cleaner.
~TomMay 19, 2011 at 11:32 pm #67277lukeduke
Participantlooks like silver birch
May 21, 2011 at 10:56 pm #67268Tim Harrigan
ParticipantAny idea what this one is?
May 22, 2011 at 1:12 am #67273ParticipantMay 22, 2011 at 12:29 pm #67269ParticipantIt has a heavy bark like locust. A lot of the branches turn at odd angles, and it is not really a hard wood. I think of it as a junk tree, not even very good for fire wood. Sort of a habitat tree though, woodpeckers seem to like to hollow out cavities in it.
May 22, 2011 at 11:36 pm #67274Matthew
Participantlooks like sasafras (probably spelled it wrong) sas-a-frass has three different leafs and a perfume smell if you break a branch.
May 26, 2011 at 3:33 pm #67276ParticipantCould be sassafras but the bark is usually more brown, the bigger trees only have one type of spear shaped leaves, they kind of lose the mitten ones as they get bigger. Sassafras also has simple leaves. Locust will have compound leaves and is in the legume family so it will produce big pea pod like fruit. My bulls love those giant pea pods. Honey locust has huge thorns top to bottom even on the trunk, black locust only has thorns on the smaller branches.
I used to go out and find a shrub or plant I didn’t know and try to figure it out for fun. Its good stuff. Although on the list of things I did before I had kids.June 13, 2011 at 12:30 pm #67270ParticipantYes, it is sassafras, easy to ID now that the leaves are out. Thanks.
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