Author Topic: Let's play "Stump the Donkey". (Read 5684 times)

sprucebunny · « **Reply #120 on:** May 18, 2005, 06:15:17 am »

SD I'll check but I think it was a hardwood ... maybe cherry or r.maple. The trees in that area are mature and spread out so it's hard to figure and I ain't tasting it

If I got a better shot, is there a way to identify the root by it's looks

It wasn't sticky just squishy like firm Jello .....

sprucebunny · « **Reply #121 on:** May 18, 2005, 06:17:56 am »

DanG That's a big leaf

and a fine lookin' forest fellow

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #122 on:** May 18, 2005, 06:27:37 am »

Sprucebunney,

Probably a hardwood then, but I wouldn't be able to id it from a photo. Would have to trace it back to the tree. I can tell aspen roots and spruce roots because they tend to be shallow, just under the little layer.

That Dang is an interesting specimen, eh?

woodbowl · « **Reply #123 on:** May 18, 2005, 08:31:37 am »

Ok, I'll give you all a hint as to identify DanG's new plant----"It's a DanG flower"

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #124 on:** May 18, 2005, 09:03:35 am »

woodbowl,

In your avatar, do I see a butter tray on that table? Now all ya need is the butter press and the butter paper.

woodbowl · « **Reply #125 on:** May 19, 2005, 12:24:04 am »

SD, I guess it could be a butter tray if you wanted to put butter in it. Down here, we just call em' wood bowls.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #126 on:** May 19, 2005, 04:34:25 am »

Yup, looks like a tray my grandmother washed butter in after removing from the churn. Is it oblong? Grandmother's tray is made from basswood and is very old.

asy · « **Reply #127 on:** May 19, 2005, 08:23:45 am »

DanG, is it tobacco or such?

Now, mind you I don't know, am just guessing, but it's such a big leaf...

asy

woodbowl · « **Reply #128 on:** May 19, 2005, 08:28:14 am »

This one is oblong, made from sweetgum.

pigman · « **Reply #129 on:** May 19, 2005, 11:44:56 am »

asy, I don't know what DanG's big leaf is, but it is not tobacco. That is, any tobacco I have ever seen and I have seen several types.

DanG · « **Reply #130 on:** May 19, 2005, 10:32:29 pm »

Think "fishbait".

UNCLEBUCK · « **Reply #131 on:** May 20, 2005, 12:57:21 am »

fishbait hmmm

, what kind of fish ?

I never seen a tobacco plant but if I knew I could grow tobacco up here I would make my own homegrown copenhagen !

fishbait hmmm ?

UNCLEBUCK · « **Reply #132 on:** May 20, 2005, 01:00:46 am »

Its a large leaf flowering chum plant?

DanG · « **Reply #133 on:** May 20, 2005, 07:03:30 am »

In this part of the country there is a worm that gets on these trees. In a matter of a week, they'll completely strip the tree of foliage. The tree will regenerate its leaves, and sometimes there will be a second crop of worms in late summer. The worms are considered the premier bait for bream, around here.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #134 on:** May 20, 2005, 07:35:16 am »

southern catalpa (indian-bean, Catawba)

DanG · « **Reply #135 on:** May 20, 2005, 07:37:54 am »

BINGO!

If we get any worms this year, I'll try to remember to get some pics.

tnlogger · « **Reply #136 on:** May 20, 2005, 09:29:18 am »

Dan is that anything like a tobie worm tree

. Paul has about twenty of them planted out back just for the fishing trips.

DanG · « **Reply #137 on:** May 20, 2005, 02:34:38 pm »

I'm sure it is one and the same. K'tawber, tawba, tobie. Lots of old time country folks didn't know what the real name was, so they called it what they thought their Granddaddy called it.

UNCLEBUCK · « **Reply #138 on:** May 20, 2005, 11:06:09 pm »

I watched a fishing show catching shellcrackers or bream/sunfish down in the florida lillypads and the worms were bright red . The bream were huge !

sprucebunny · « **Reply #139 on:** May 22, 2005, 06:13:51 am »

This one probably isn't too hard. There's lots of it around . It sure puts on a show in spring. It always amazes me that wild plants in colder climates have such large flowers.

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