Jenny, Again I'm way, way behind in my email. Now I'm 400 to 500 email messages behind! But I've gotten a job on a cranberry farm, just since this past Wednesday. I leave the house in the morning and get back at 8 pm. Anyway, to answer your question, I'll refer to a book I have called "Field Book of Natural History". It's a field guide to everything in nature, from all animals, to all plants and trees, etc. I think it covers what can be easily found all over the world. Anyway, when you look up a tree species, it tells you everything about it, more than your average field guide. When you look up a hardwood tree species, it tells you the percentage of hardness versus White Oak, besides all the other information. I can infer from that that White Oak is the hardest. But maybe not? I don't know. I would have guessed hickory as well. Barry
--- On Fri, 10/30/09, JennyNYC <[email protected]> wrote: From: JennyNYC <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] What's the hardest hardwood? To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, October 30, 2009, 6:15 PM ENTS, Quick question. Is hickory the hardest hardwood? I feel SO much more connected with my trees now that those confusing leaves are falling off. Hilarious that the twigs, bark, and buds make id so much easier...I guess all that winter id work paid off, thanks to you guys. I looked at a twig walking down the street and said "oh, Beech" before I even looked at the bark....what a relief. I thought the leaves would solidify everything. Didn't. I was depressed about it. And I was watching a Japanese movie (Ballad of Narayama) and the peasant were snapping spring buds off the top of a young leafless and branchless tree and I said "oh, ailanthus" in what is probably it's native habitat. And lots of Japanese Black pine and red pine and tanyosho pine. Those leaves are just too flirty and coy sashaying around in the breeze. But I thank them for their hard work over the summer storing food and preparing buds. Reading a book that takes place in New Orleans and lots of live oaks are mentioned. It's great that I know what they look like from Larry's pix. Hope you're all well. I'm so impressed and amazed at all your posts. What a privilege to be able to exchange posts. Jenny --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
