Can anyone identify this tree?

[Leo Van Der Loo]

Here are some pic's from:
1) Linden bark, notice the quite flat bark
2)Linden leaves, quite different from the Mulberry leaves
3) and 4) leaves from my small Mulberry that grows in my backyard.

[Bob Hallowell]

Here are some pic's from:
1) Linden bark, notice the quite flat bark
2)Linden leaves, quite different from the Mulberry leaves
3) and 4) leaves from my small Mulberry that grows in my backyard.

Well if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a mullberry tree.

Bob

[curtis rosche]

yipee i was finally right about something!

[steven carter]

Reed,

It doesn't have much smell, even the resin that pooled only had a faint smell. The entire tree has the same leaves, and I checked a known mulberry and it still has the fruit on it. Maybe there are some mulberry trees that have the same kind of leave and no fruit (maybe male trees)?

Steve

[Dick Strauss]

Steven,
Some mullberry leaves have lobes and some don't. Some trees produce berries and some don't. There are so many varieties of mullberry it isn't funny:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullberry

[Leo Van Der Loo]

Yes there's a fruitless variety Steve, as I was saying earlier, we have the red and white Mulberry species, but there are a bunch of varieties, there are apparently a few other species growing in N.Am., but mainly the native Red Mulberry, and the introduced White Mulberry, as it was part of the effort to grow and make the silk in the US, and the silkworm eats the White Mulberry leaves, the silk thing was a flop, but the White Mulberry does well and is naturalized in a large part of the US and Canada.

[Bill Blasic]

With my Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees sitting in front of me the bark and leaves are a dead match for Mulberry.

[Nathan Hawkes]

Reed,

It doesn't have much smell, even the resin that pooled only had a faint smell. The entire tree has the same leaves, and I checked a known mulberry and it still has the fruit on it. Maybe there are some mulberry trees that have the same kind of leave and no fruit (maybe male trees)?

Steve

Two trees that I cut last year for a friend had stopped fruiting about five years prior to being cut. They were, I guess, over-mature, as one sometimes describes trees---the crown had become very strangled it was so thick, and the both of them were about 80 years old. Your tree looks equally aged. I'm no expert, though. This may be unusual for them to lack fruit though. I'm not sure of the male/female relationship of the mulberry.

In any case of identification, go start turning some of it!! Muberry gets hard when it dries, IME.

[Matt Hutchinson]

There a a gabillion huge Mulberry trees here in Grand Rapids, and that certainly looks like one of 'em. As said before, the leaves very often DON'T have 3 lobes.

Also, I have been working with some mulberry bowls lately, and it can be a real pain. It is a much harder/slower working wood than I expected. The tools dull quickly, and you can't hog off wood very easily. But I think it's a pretty wood, especially if you let it 'tan' in the sun. It also has an almost irridescent quality. Very pretty, and would like to get my hands on some huge chunks some day.

Be warned, it is a wood that moves A LOT in the drying process. The pictured blank had a straight right side originally. (It's about an 11" blank.)

Hutch

[steven carter]

Thanks everyone! My story is it is mulberry and I'm sticking to it. Will post after turning.

Steve

[William Bachtel]

Cottonwood, Poplar, Basswood have white color to the wood. I vote for Mulberry.

[Phil Thien]

Looks like MDF to me.

[Reed Gray]

I guess one question we never asked is does the tree have berries on it?
robo hippy

[Jason Solodow]

Steven-

Without a doubt, that is Osage Orange... It has a tendency to split apart like that at the pith, and it is bright when first cut, but darkens really really fast. I love Osage, it turns well with minimal tear out, but keep your tools sharp because it is a very hard wood... I always turn it wet and let it dry....But even wet, it's pretty dry! Don't worry about getting any more of it though, I'll be in Connersville tomorrow and I'll take care of the rest of it! j/k nab all of it that you can!

[Craig Powers]

Another unique characteristic of mulberry is that it exudes a "milky"
sap. Look at the area inside the bark right where the sapwood is.
Often a white milky substance will ooze out.
Here is some more info.

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/DENDRO/DENDROL...heet.cfm?ID=58