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    Default Tree Identification help

    I found this tree stump outside someones yard, anyone know what tree it was? I know it's not indigenous to South Africa but I have no idea what it is. It's a smallish tree, probably about 5m in height, I think it's from the USA.






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    No picture attached.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers View Post
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    No images have been attached but there is 3 images inserted, maybe refresh your page Cliff as they showed up straight away for me
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    Got it now, ta.
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    Interesting but I have no idea.
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    Default Tree Identification help

    Hi,
    I am a botanist in Australia. To really identify any plant one needs the distinctive parts o the plant. These normally include flowers and leaves, though sometimes the leaves and bark will be adequate if one knows about where the plant grows natually, how big it grows etc. Do you have any of that information or photos? When you have only a stump like that from a garden grown plant it is probably only the people that grew it that can - possibly - tell you. Good luck.
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    Looks more like Beena to me.
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    They grow all over Bloemfontein but is considered an invasive plant.
    I found one on street view:

    https://maps.google.co.za/?ll=-29.117037,26.165142&spn=0.013422,0.01796&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=-29.117152,26.165119&panoid=OOtyVUBsHSGQ5MvwGhAhhQ&cbp=12,329.11,,0,0.05


    that whole street is actually lined with them.

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    It does look similar to the cassia but I don't recall ever seeing one with bright yellow flowers.. I could be wrong though. The leaves look almost exactly like the Senna siamea, just a little more roundish.

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    How do I go about drying this thing? Any ideas what I can make out of it?

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    I eventually found out what wood this is, Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia).

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    I don't know what it is – but it may not be black locust.

    I collect small pieces of timber and the heartwood of the piece of black locust I have is lighter than what is in your photo.

    The images that come up when I did a Google search under black locust are also lighter.

    What made you think it was black locust?

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    The photos in my first post does actually make the heartwood appear darker than it really is. I was at a local nursery buying a few seedlings for the garden when I saw the exact same tree which had a little sign on it saying that it was a Black Locust tree and not indigenous to South Africa. I saw a small piece in halve on the bandsaw and it does look like black locust, it is also really really hard and damn heavy. I could be wrong though.




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