Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Thursday trivia
Dale Lenz
I'm still on drugs from my "piece of cake surgery" piece of cake my a**, it's what I call Dale's luck.
Anyway, I was called out many moons ago to look at his 3-leaf ash tree. Knowly, there was no tree "properly" call a 3- leaf ash, what do you think I found?
Re: Thursday trivia
Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level
Were you afraid to touch it?
T.
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John Veerkamp
I 'll be irritated if T is wrong
You guys are close
Dale Lenz
but the plant has opposite branching.
Outside the box
Lee Schierer McKean, PA
I think you might have your elders boxed in.
Lee
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Answer
Dale Lenz
The tree turned out to be a box elder, only time in my career I've heard of it called a 3-leaf ash. Believe I've read it in a book once or twice since then. Box elder grows near creeks as does poison ivy and other places. Everytime I see what I believe is a small box elder brush, I'll look for opposite branching to be sure. If I can not tell the branching pattern for sure, I won't touch it.
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