Anyone know anything about the wood from a non-fruit bearing cherry tree?
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If this is an old, old tree and is free of severe insect damage then you have a small fortune on your hands!  I suggest going to E-bay and sell to the highest bidder.
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lmao have no clue about bansai trees sorry!
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lignum vitae found in the Caribbean\n\nit is called an ironwood\n\ndensity is about 1.4\n\ndon't know the chemical composition of wood... sorry
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I've heard that maraschino cherries are sometimes preserved in formaldehyde.  It can't be good for you. They keep body parts in jars in science class with that stuff!  I love Shirley Temples though so I still eat my cherries.
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Because the tree is not a plum tree
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Just choose five deciduous trees - oak, maple, elm, poplar, hickory, chestnut, etc.  Of course, if you need to be more specific, white or red oak, sugar or red maple, American elm, yellow poplar, American chestnut, etc.  If you need things other than trees, try shrubs (multi-floral rose, sweet shrub or japonica) or fruit-bearing plants (blackberry, raspberry, blueberry, gooseberry).
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Well where I live I know they like Acorns from the Oak Trees. The wild berries I think of here are Dewberries (Blackberries). Maybe Huckleberries. They also like Persimmons and Beer. They make wine from the Persimmons. Craziest party animals I ever been around. Deers are a Hoot when they drunk.
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Wood CAN become shiny and red/terra cotta-ish when it petrifies.
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Sounds a lot like Ailanthus altissima, the "Tree of Heaven". It is from China and is considered an invasive species, and is common in urban areas of the east. If it is a male tree, it should have a disagreeable odor.
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It is trees or wood that has been buried and due to the time and the type of enviornment that it was in, the wood was replaced by quartz minerals mimicing the wood grains and structure.  It is a case of mineral repalcement
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An ex boyfriend had to move to Anchorage, Alaska for awhile.  I couldn't meet him up there for a couple of weeks.\n\nHe mailed me a love letter on the white side of the paper bark he peeled from a white birch tree.  The back side of the bark is brown. The bark is just like paper but the edges of it are jagged from peeling it from the tree.\n\nI won't give out the romantic contents of it but that is the coolest, most romantic and creative thing I have ever recieved.\n\nWe're not together any more but I still keep it in my scrapbook.  There are 4 pages about 5 inches square.
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This is not a botany related question...
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My boyfriend has been researching his fam tree, has found some very cool info online - I think it would be fun to do mine!
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Elm,hickory, beech and maple trees to name a few. At least this is the link I found.
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i agree with shermanbobby.  that's the story i've heard.  in addition to the marks of the wounds of the crucified Jesus being on each of the four dogwood flowers, the dogwood is a spindly tree that hardly ever gets above 20 feet tall and rarely over 6 inches across in the trunk area.  and there's hardly a straight part on the tree---it goes off in so many zigs and zags that you could never make a cross out of it again---just not enough straight wood in the whole tree.
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Too many variables including size, thicknes, etc. The janka hardness rating scale puts Northern Red and White Oak at about halfway behind heavier woods like Jatoba, Walnut and Hickory/
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I found some over here!\nNot much meat on them though...\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=Avyu.Vb4sfxL3TOPd8ehKw4ezKIX?p=wood+chuck