Wonder wood ID please

cool looking wood. I have a chunk of a dead apple trunk that looks similar.

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What ever it is, sure is purrrrdee!

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Deadwood?? :-)

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Monte, Have you got a picture of a leaf? Might help identification.
Jim

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Could it be Russion Olive (Oleander)?

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In my neck of the woods, profuse white flowers with a sweet fragrance and very thorny would mean Locust. The wood doesn’t look much like our locust but it looks like the cut may have been in a decayed area.

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My understanding of locust is that it’s hard and dense. This is very soft and porous. This was a live bush when cut. Just the way it grows.

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This might help.

http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/edge-farm/Woods/odnr-property_walk_Jan_20_2009/TOC.html

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OK I’m out. If it’s soft, it is definitely not Locust.

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Monte, it does look surprising like redbud but we know it isnt. the color and grain is almost exactly like redbud. That’s all I got.

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Time to call in FBI, or maybe the forestry service, lol. I still think it is Russian Olive after comparing your box project with the color tones and strong grain. There is a turned piece in the R.O. with a white pith just like your blog picture. It is not really Olive tree, just has that name. Here is the link. If you scroll almost to the bottom you will see a hollow form with a white pith, which I haven’t seen in other woods. It could be called Oleander too.

http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/russian%20olive.htm

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My guess would be crabapple.

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It’s not locust or crabapple as I have cut both of those. I vote to call it South Dakota Balsa until the forestry service smartens us up. Monte also says this is a ‘bush’ and doesn’t get too big if that helps anyone.

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