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Please Help Identify Solved: Cucumber Tree
« on: October 24, 2008, 11:47:37 am »
 

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Re: Please Help Identify
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2008, 11:50:43 am »
I'm new at this picture thing excuse the igornance, this was harvested in northern W.Va. about 2 miles south of the Mason Dixon Line.
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Re: Please Help Identify
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2008, 09:09:03 pm »
Here,s another picture, I know the quality is not the greatest. I,m trying to confirm the type of tree. It is not a yard tree. Thanks for the help. :)

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Re: Please Help Identify
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2008, 09:54:18 pm »
It might be cucumber tree.
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Re: Please Help Identify
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2008, 10:53:09 pm »
Yes, that is what it is. 
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Re: Please Help Identify
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2008, 07:46:04 am »
Thanks, that's what I thought it was. First time I've come across one, not very common in this area. :)
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Re: Please Help Identify Solved: Cucumber Tree
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2008, 09:38:55 am »
I'm glad to see this.  Magnolia species mostly mean to me, large, thick, shiny leaves.  The wood you displayed is really pretty.

WDH and tyb525,  where did the tree get its name?   I looked at images on google and the trunk looks really weird, in one of the images, kinda like that Baobab tree in africa.
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Re: Please Help Identify Solved: Cucumber Tree
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2008, 01:33:48 pm »
It is also called Cucumber Magnolia, or Indian bitter. The wood is similar to tulip tree, but heavier.

It's called a cucumber tree cause the young fruits look like small cucumbers.
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Re: Please Help Identify Solved: Cucumber Tree
« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2008, 10:52:14 pm »
I have seen a lot of it in the mountains of West Va East of the Sutton area.  Awesome cherry, too.
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Re: Please Help Identify Solved: Cucumber Tree
« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2008, 08:10:35 am »
How valuable is the wood?
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Re: Please Help Identify Solved: Cucumber Tree
« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2008, 01:19:13 pm »
Looks like something that would make a good 5.75" by 5.75" by 1" square.
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Re: Please Help Identify Solved: Cucumber Tree
« Reply #11 on: October 26, 2008, 05:43:25 pm »
 The stumps are where the cucumber trees were harvested. Lost about six feet out each butt log.

Still ended with a nice pile of boards.






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Re: Please Help Identify Solved: Cucumber Tree
« Reply #12 on: October 26, 2008, 10:48:03 pm »
Quote from: Tom on October 26, 2008, 08:10:35 am
How valuable is the wood?

It is like yellow poplar as they are cousins in the Magnolia family.
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Re: Please Help Identify Solved: Cucumber Tree
« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2008, 10:50:52 pm »
Quote from: WDH on October 25, 2008, 10:52:14 pm
I have seen a lot of it in the mountains of West Va East of the Sutton area.  Awesome cherry, too.
WDH, nothiing sceintific about my not very common in this area comment, maybe more not being properly identified. Had 2 older experienced woodsmen tell me they thought these trees were a poplar. Although there were only 3 now 1 on my 15 acre woodlot.
Quote from: Jeff on October 26, 2008, 01:19:13 pm
Looks like something that would make a good 5.75" by 5.75" by 1" square.


Jeff, I've had a piece of basswood dried and waiting for the finisher since last July . I'll have to get after that guy. :)
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Re: Please Help Identify Solved: Cucumber Tree
« Reply #14 on: November 01, 2008, 07:38:28 am »
Quote from: SamB on October 26, 2008, 05:43:25 pm
The stumps are where the cucumber trees were harvested. Lost about six feet out each butt log.

Still ended with a nice pile of boards.

That is a nice symmetrical log sitting on the mill in that first picture.  Is that cucumber tree?
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Re: Please Help Identify Solved: Cucumber Tree
« Reply #15 on: November 01, 2008, 07:57:26 am »
Negative, that would be a cherry log on the mill, the stack of boards would be what was salvaged from the cucumber logs. :)
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