Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: Lee Lobbestael on March 17, 2010, 10:10:41 pm
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What kind of plant is this? seems to grow bout five to six feet give or take. pretty stiff and fairly tough. Will it make an arrow? ???(http://i756.photobucket.com/albums/xx203/Lee1_photos/downsized_0317001941a1.jpg)
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Goldenrod? ???
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Where do you live? What are it's growing habits? Is it native or exotic?
Could it be salt cedar?
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I live in michigan, southern
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Gawd...I hope that Salt Cedar hasn't made it that far North...thats some bad chit........
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Lee it looks like a goldenrod to me, last years plant . I wouldn't waste my time with it lots of better stuff out there.
BTW I'm a Yooper eh ;D
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Can't see enough from the pic to say for sure. A couple more pics would help, including a closer view of the seedpods, and a shot of the whole plant. If it's a woody shrub, it's probably meadowsweet or hardhack spiraea, which make pretty good arrows if you can get them seasoned without checking. If it's a herbacous perennial, they generally don't make great arrows. People have made arrows from goldenrod, horseweed, etc. but they are usually lightweight and don't hold up too well. You should have several kinds of hardwood shoots in your area, like red osier dogwood, silky dogwood, viburnum, privet, bush honetsuckle, hazelnut, and such.
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Thanks guys! Dana I know all about you crazy Yoopers! ;DMy mom is form Calumet and I have lots of family in Houghton/Hancock area.
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Dems da Deep Woods Yoopers....Dana is a Shirt Tail Cousin......so to speak.....He.may still be a Yooper... but he can see Trollville from his house...... ;D
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Dems da Deep Woods Yoopers....Dana is a Shirt Tail Cousin......so to speak.....He.may still be a Yooper... but he can see Trollville from his house...... ;D
And El D cam see Mexico from his >:D
My great grandad was born in Calumet, still have family in the Chassell/houghton/Hancock area :)
If you ever come up here Lee give me a holler eh :)
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kinda reminds me of evening primrose.
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I,m goin with Jamie on this one, top of plant just doesn,t seem quite right for goldenrod. Need a better picture of top or seed pods area. Just my .02 worth. Bob
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Yeah after further examination I scrapped those shoots! They weren't very tough! Sure thing Dana i'm up there most every summer!
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Yeah after further examination I scrapped those shoots! They weren't very tough! Sure thing Dana i'm up there most every summer!
Lee I'm just off US 2 in Manistique, right behind the State Trooper post :) Let me know and we will hook up :)
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Hey der El D, I tink dat would make Dana like a border guard hey? ;D
But I tink he could probably be bribed wit a couple of brats, and pasties, and a six pack, ta let ya across don't cha know?
Wayne
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Hey der El D, I tink dat would make Dana like a border guard hey? ;D
But I tink he could probably be bribed wit a couple of brats, and pasties, and a six pack, ta let ya across don't cha know?
Wayne
;) ;D