I came across this
(http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r300/bnccont/SS850702.jpg)
I do know what it is and I will tell you it is a seed pod from a tree.Yes I know what kind of tree just wondering if any one else here does
It's none other than Hamamelidaceae Liquidambar styraciflua! :eyebrow: :laf:
.....or Sweet Gum.
Sweet gum.
Another thing ya dont want to step on one bare foot
Dave I had to look your guess up :laf: I can honestly tell you I have no gum trees here
Just eat it Bill :innocentwhistle:
Quote from: FinsnFur on November 12, 2010, 04:43:02 PM
Just eat it Bill :innocentwhistle:
No No Jimbo :nofgr: :laf:
I saw something like it down at the LBL last year, but I sure don't know what it is :shrug:. I had eleven guess's on another tree and only 5 were the same :confused:.
Is it a Sycamore ??????? Steve
No Steve
But I will give a hint
It is popular because of an attractive shape and trunk. The green, glossy leaves show brilliant red to bronze fall color.
chinkapin oak?
Mike did you cheat? :alscalls:
Not 100% correct
The leaves on these trees look like the burr oak
:confused: Bill, you all sure have some funny looking acorns up there. :laf:
Yes sir Chet One thing for sure we like different :alscalls:
I will try and get a pic of the tree tomorrow and post it up
http://www.cirrusimage.com/tree_pin_oak.htm
I didn't know they were of the beech family also called sweet gum I didn't know that either
Quote from: coyotehunter_1 on November 12, 2010, 06:41:15 PM
:confused: Bill, you all sure have some funny looking acorns up there. :laf:
You'd think a good photog man could find a set of antlers in there somewhere :shrug:
Bill. Yes and no. When you said it wasn't sweet gum, I got to thinking Chinkapin so I looked it up. That wasn't it so I thought Burr Oak, but the top on them is partially smooth. The only thing left that I could think of was Chinkapin Oak. I thought the Pin Oak had a smoother top on the acorn.
Quote from: msmith on November 12, 2010, 07:26:47 PM
When you said it wasn't sweet gum, I got to thinking Chinkapin .
I got to thinking velcro :doh2:.
I never heard of them being called a sweet gum.For as long as I can remember older folks around here just called them a pin oak.Then after doing a search on the pin oak sweet gum and those words HuntnCarve used I soon found out there are several names and the tree is of the beech and sweet gum family.See what ya learn if ya just do some home work :laf:
LOL @ Barry!
I know you have heard me talk of sweetgum during our chats Bill. That is one of hte most worthless trees nature has. Only when the tree is in sapling stages of growth does it even provide decent browse for deer. If it were me I'd cut the sucker!! Hate the blamed things, and they are the most prevalent tree on hte place. Jimmie
Jimmie
They do make good fire wood from what I read on pin oak it gets sometimes confused with the red oak even when cut into boards.I can't believe your telling me to cut these trees when Chris has told me to save them. :nofgr: :nofgr: :nofgr: I am guessing you don't like me :laf: :laf: Chris would give me the thrashing of a life time :alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls:
Thanks to all who played along even though I had to be corrected
It is interesting to see how many different names there are for one thing
Bill that's a "Sweet gum" (Hamamelidaceae Liquidambar styraciflua) . The leaves will look sort of like a five lobed star. Not in the Oak family (Quercus). About the only use for that tree was pulping for paper.
That is hte seed of a sweetgum tree as Huntandcarve said. Chipwood is hte only thing it is good for. Although I have heard of a way of making what they call a log candle that it might be suited for. It burns very slowly unless nearly rotten. Bugs love the crap too.
Pin oak is a member of the red oak family and Has an acorn not mu8ch bigger than a pencil eraser. One of the first to drop in fall. Deer do make good use of pin2 oak. And it is fine firewood when yuou can 0find them of any size. Jimmie
I've often thought, what I call Pin Oak, would make an awesome Knotty Oak paneling. :shrug:
We call them gum ball's here, They are from the sweet gum tree & are not even close to a pin oak tree.