[Magdalen] Bye-Bye Blue Beech

[Jay Weigel]

I know it's tropical, I said it was South American. I just don't know what
its correct name is. I think it might be from Brazil.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Charles Wohlers <
charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:

> If you look up ironwood in Wikipedia, you get a very large number of trees
> which are sometimes called that. In the Eastern US & Canada, "ironwood"
> usually means American hornbeam. Your description of the wood doesn't sound
> like hornbeam, so maybe it is tropical.
>
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Jay Weigel
> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 1:15 PM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Bye-Bye Blue Beech
>
>
> IIRC, there is some other kind of tree known as "ironwood" that is (maybe)
> South American and is hard as the dickens. The wood stinks when cut and the
> sap can be irritating. My late ex's former employer used shipping crates
> made of this stuff, and as a result, we had some things made of it, as he'd
> managed to secure a few of the crates for personal use. The wood lasts
> practically forever. He built a workshop from one very large crate that he
> had hauled to the first house we owned, and it's still standing unscathed.
> I found that the sawdust made a dandy insect repellent when scattered
> lightly about my garden, too.
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
>
>>
>>
>> I always hate cutting a tree I've planted, but today I had removed
>> my two Blue Beech trees (Carpinus carolinica because they had
>> gotten too large, and were affecting two other prize trees - a
>> Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) and the largest
>> of several Alaska Cedars (Cupressus nootkatensis).
>>
>> The Blue Beeches are really related to the Birch family and not
>> to true beeches.  Together with another Birch family relative,
>> the Hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana) they are also called
>> "Ironwoods" because of their extremely hard wood.
>>
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpinus_caroliniana
>>
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrya_virginiana
>>
>>
>>
>> David Strang.
>>
>>
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