Trees from Cindy's woods - tree #8

[GW]

These small trees are just above the pond site starting roughly around the shoreline and continuing up the bank. This hill faces east and there are several White Oaks in the same area plus the usual Sweet Gums, Water Oaks, and a few Live Oaks. There is also another tree common in that area that I believe is Cherry. I'll start a new thread for those.

The largest of these trees are 15 - 20 feet tall.







These trees are shaded by the larger trees, but as I transition up the bank from the pond these will be exposed as the large trees are cleared.

[Dodgy Loner]

That's sparkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum.  It's actually a wild species of blueberry (you can see one in your pictures), but the berries are unpalatable.

[GW]

Thanks DL.

[limbrat]

Sparkle berry I have herd it called winter huckelberry. I had a spice box made from a 7" piece that was saved from a burn pile on a highway widening project. It had 73 growth rings.

[GW]

The wood looks pretty from the outside, how does it look sawn?

[limbrat]

like pale cherry but with a interlocking grain. But there aint much to saw the bush in the picture is probably over thirty yrs. old