Can You Identify This

[Radar67]

Here's a whatzit for you guys and gals.

 

Stew

[Jeff]

Its a crappie Jig.

[WDH]

Albizia julibrissen?

[Radar67]

Danny, you made me pull the book out for the Latin name...you are correct though. More commonly known as the Silk Tree or Mimosa.

Stew

[WDH]

Stew,

I have many fond memories of that tree.  If I told those stories, it would reveal my poor-upbringing-roots (of which I am vey proud of by the way).  That has to be my favorite latin name........It feels good off the tongue as you say it out loud .  OK............All y'all have to say it out-loud (ALBIZIA JULIBRISSEN) and tell me if I am right .  Come on y'all, don't be shy.  If y'all have a better candidate of a latin name flowing off the tongue, fess up . 

Your post of that flower brought back some of my most deep seated memories as a child.  Thank you!  I owe you at least one catfish supper, maybe two .  I will pay up soon.  Maybe we can convince DonK to partake as well .  Maybe we could drag over the Forum philospher, DanG too. .

[Radar67]

I'll be visiting with Don Tomorrow. I am definitely coming to Georgia in October for the Ag show. I too have memories of that tree as a youngun. Used to strip the leaves off the branches for what seemed like hours.

Stew

[WDH]

Tell DonK that I am jealous of his fine experience at Sawlex.  He did look good in the pics, though .

[DanG]

I have fond memories of that tree, too.  An evermore bigg'un stood right over my Grandma's chicken house.  They were all over the place, and the leaves were fun to play with.  I became less fond of them when I owned some land that had them!

BTW, I don't eat catfish unless I'm by myself, or with somebody.

[Jeff]

Speaking of Sawlex and Catfish, Tom and I had some mighty fine catfish at the exhibitors meet and greet friday night.  You Missed out DanG, remember the first one in Ohio?  Free food and beer?  Same stuff only they had some AWESOME catfish. I ate about... Well, lets just say I ate a few.   Then Tammy and I went and had Mexican with Custom Sawyer and Lorraine.  About a pitcher of suds each for Jake and I and I was still thinking about that catfish.


I still say, add a hook, ya got a crappie jig.

[Radar67]

That might work if you could find a hook small enough...wouldn't last but a cast or two though. 

Stew

[Riles]

My favorite Latin name has to be Catalpa bignonioides. BIG non e oiy dees. It doesn't flow off your tongue, more like it richochets off the insides of your mouth.

[beenthere]

And the dendro prof said "Ya better say it right, and ya better spell it right!"   

[Dodgy Loner]

My favorite Latin name: Vaccinium stamineum.  Now that rolls off your tongue!

I'm also interested in what kind of wood that mimosa bloom is sitting on...Lemme guess, red maple?

[Texas Ranger]

Liriodendron tulipifera followed closely by Liquidambar styraciflura.

[WDH]

BIG non e oiy dees.

Riles,

That sure causes your mouth to take on quite a few different shapes .

[TexasTimbers]

This may be hard to believe since I am so ID challenged but I knew that one. Pretty flowers. I lived in Corpus Christi for two 3 year stretches though. Anyone who lives there knows them. And Oleander. And Chinaberry. Ahhhh the Chinaberry fights we use to have. Trash can lids for shields and slingshots (wrist rockets) for shooting the vaunted berries at each other. Street versus street. High velocity projectile versus eyeball. Ouch.

[Phorester]

Kill it. Worse than ailanthus.

As far as latin names, Texas Ranger got my favorite one to pronounce.  The Southern way (which of course is the correct way) is Lick-qwid-DAM-bar  Sty-rass-ah-FLUE-wer.

[Tom]

yeah, sweet smelling, prolific Sweet Gum.

It's one reason an old forester told me to "prepare and plant pines.  You are going to have hardwoods regardless of what you do." 

[WDH]

Some people get insulted when I call sweet gum a weed .

[Tom]

I don't get insulted, but I've found some of the prettiest cabinet wood inside of Sweet Gum that a man could every want.  It's a fact that it will come up  most anywhere though. 

[TexasTimbers]

Sweetgum is like the harlot, alright.

[Radar67]

Dodgy, I haven't a clue what the wood is. It is the box my turning tools are stored in.

Stew

[SwampDonkey]

OK............All y'all have to say it out-loud (ALBIZIA JULIBRISSEN) and tell me if I am right .  Come on y'all, don't be shy.  If y'all have a better candidate of a latin name flowing off the tongue, fess up . 

Turdus migratorius comes to mind 

or maybe

Pinus strobus


shy?  Hmmm 

[DWM II]

Danny, sweet gum and chinaberry (aka tallow, chicken trees) are the most despised weed on the ground I'm living on. Toms right about the gum, it is pretty, but I aint found no use for them DanG chicken trees yet  . If anybody knows what to do with'wm now the time to fess up .

[WDH]

Donnie,  The chinese tallow, Sapium sebiferum, is all over Louisianna.  Some people call that chinaberry and some call it popcorn tree.  We were looking at a potential Mitigation Bank tract in Livingston Parish, and the Wildlife and Fisheries guy from the state said we had to eradicate all the tallow because it is good for nothing, not even for the birds and the bees.

Kevjay,  Chinaberry, Melia azedarach, was a mainstay of my youth.  Stripping the bark off the limbs, so we could fashion weapons  , resulted in a distinct smell that you will never forget.  If I have thrown one chinaberry, I have thrown a million .  Every fence row around here has some.

[Tom]

The popcorn tree is known for the oil in its nut.  You can impale one on a needle, light it with a match and watch it burn like a candle for a minute or more.

I've told this story before.  A professor in Hawaii wanted to replace all of the old cane fields with chinese tallow.  He had figured that they could get enough oil to fuel the airplanes back to the mainland without having to ship anymore to Hawaii, thereby making the tourist trade self-sufficient.

I've seen chinese tallow bowls turned and they are a non-descript brown.  I've seen Chinaberry (Melia azedarach) turned and it is beautiful, sort of a red-brown but mottled.

[limbrat]

I got some looks from teenagers cause the end of the tweesers on my pocket knife were burnt up from them tallow nuts

[WDH]

Tom, the chinaberry wood is very striking.  Has a ring porous structure and a bold grain like ash, only redder like you say.  I did cut one tree (and a nail), so I will try to post a pic of the wood (not the nail ).

[DWM II]

Danny, is that a wetlands mit. bank in Livingston you are looking at? Where at in Livingston? Weve got some lower areas in the southern end of the parish, but most of that is getting mitigated itself for subdivison construction. Livingston has some of the higher property values in the state, I'm surprised the state hasent sold to a private investor yet .

[WDH]

Yes Donnie,  the potential Mitigation Bank is just north of lake Maurepas about 15 miles south of Livingston.  There is a big demand for wetlands mitigation because of the rapid growth in Livingston, Parish.  Flight out of New Orleans I believe.