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Elm backed with cherrybark

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Hillbilly:
Pat, I remember your cherry-backed osage, looked good. You can get some good sized pieces of bark off Mazzard cherry (Prunus avium), which is probably what's on Andrew's bow here, it's a European species. There are alot of them naturalized around Asheville. They get big, and have the nice coppery underbark. We remove them as invasives sometimes, I'll grab us some bark the next time I cut one. I haven't seen much chokecherry (P. virginiana) around, and they're usually small and shrubby. There's a buttload of fire/pin  cherry (P. pennsylvanicum) along the parkway above 5000' or so.

Pat B:
Those are the ones I was talking about...along the Pkwy.   Pat

white wood:
very nice bow andrew! i like the braced profile with those recurved tips. the cherry bark looks awesome too! i have choke cherry around here but they are more like bushes. we do have black cherry that grows wild but theres not many around. ill keep my eye out for now on, -jesse

1/2primitive:
Very nice bow using a more unusual backing.
      Sean

Dustybaer:
i'm not sure on ours but it could be prunus avium or prunus padus.

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