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21st March 2014, 02:21 PM #1
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A birch? gift
A friend dropped this off last night and I reckon its birck. The only thing is it doesn't look quite right. It's definitely not silver birch. I've cut one of those before and it was quite orange in colour. this is brown; so i was expecting all birches to be orangey, hence the doubt. The leaves are slightly sandpapery on the top surface. A couple are slightly visible at the top of the first Pic. I might take another with a better leaf pic.
The narly/burl stuff is of course the interesting bit. Good for pens and little stuff I'd reacon. I'l cut some when I get a new bandsaw blade broke the last one and just sharpened it
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21st March 2014, 02:35 PM #2
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Tim, pretty sure that is white poplar
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21st March 2014, 02:43 PM #3
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Could be poplar
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21st March 2014, 07:01 PM #4
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Thanks fellas. You could be right. Here's the pic of the leaves and some of it cut up.
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21st March 2014, 11:16 PM #5
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Wow, have no idea what it is, but certainly an interesting nodules on the roots. Definitely looks like a casting job to me, dam forgot to give you that demo, you might have to send them to me once they are dry and I'm back in the GC.
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22nd March 2014, 12:19 PM #6
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Those root nodules are typical of the Alders (Alnus species), which are closely related to the Birches. The nodules are nitrogen-fixing devices as are found in legumes.
Don't know enough about the genus to help with actual species.Brian
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