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Growing osage in Florida
Wiley:
First time I've heard that they are very different. Most of what i've read about it seems to say that both red and white are great bow woods, the main thing is that it is not a paper mulberry. From what I understand the paper mulberry probably feels a lot more like balsa than the red.
I'd feel a lot less bad about cutting down a white mulberry given it not being native and its ability to hybridize with the red mulberry. Eventually there won't be much red mulberry left.
mullet:
Wiley;
I didn't know the difference between the two until I made the post about cutting down Mulberry a few weeks ago. Hillbilly, Steve Parker the Medicine Man writer for PA brought it to my attention. Paper mulberry is pretty useless for bow wood, I tried it a long time ago. White Mulberry, If you go back and find my thread is almost, but not quite as yellow as Osage and feels just about as dense.
stickbender:
--- Quote from: PrimitiveTim on January 17, 2014, 02:00:26 am ---Well, we can't legally cut on gov't land so we might as well forget about it >:D
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Welllllll...... Technically it isn't a native species, and they have been trying to eradicate non native species, like the Australian pine, which is actually not a pine, nor from Australia since Australia doesn't have any native pines, they have imported pines from the U.S., and have pretty good lumber forest going now. Australian pines are actually in the Hickory family, and sometimes called Brazilian Oak. If you want a good fire wood, and wood to smoke meat, and fish, etc. it is great! Parnell made a nifty little survival bow out of a sapling, and brought it over to Eddie's. I was very surprised at how well it shot.
Wayne
bow101:
--- Quote from: mullet on January 17, 2014, 11:55:14 am ---
--- Quote from: PrimitiveTim on January 17, 2014, 02:00:26 am ---Well, we can't legally cut on gov't land so we might as well forget about it >:D
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There is also yew in the Appalachee National Forest along the river. :'(
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Mmmm... I understand that boo grows like crazy in the Appalachian area. Bamboo will grow on the west coast. Of course yew is native.
Nice country there, from what I see on TV, that's why I like watching some of those reality shows, moonshiners, Appalachian outlaws. Crazy stuff. Do things like that here maybe a slap on the wrist, second time probably still no jail time. Laws here are extremely lax.
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