Bonus Puzzle - ID This Wood

[Edgar]

Welcome to an unscheduled Bonus Puzzle. This one will give you a chance to demonstrate your wood identification skills. The first person to properly identify the wood in the picture below will win a box of my Texas blanks, including one of these mystery blanks.

This contest is open to all IAP members but be sure to read the rules and guidelines below before you start guessing:

1. Any IAP member in good standing is eligible to participate. The Universal Bash Guidelines apply and your Personal Profile must include your full first & last name.

2. This Bonus Puzzle is separate from the BASH Puzzle Contest. You may enter and win this contest even if you have already won an individual puzzle prize in the Puzzle Contest. The winner of this contest will not earn any points toward the overall Puzzle Contest prize, but you will win a box of blanks and bragging rights for winning the 2015 Bonus Puzzle Contest.

3. Post your guesses for this wood in this thread. You may make as many guesses as you want, but only one guess per post. There will be only one winner, so there is no point in repeating a previous guess.

4. The winner will be the first person to post the proper common name of this wood. The scientific name or an AKA will not be accepted.

First hint: this wood is from my farm in Columbus, TX

Good luck & have fun
Edgar

 

[wyone]

sassafras!

 

[Edward Cypher]

Persimmon

 

[MikeG]

I think it's pecan.

 

[rudderonly]

Crape Myrtle

 

[Edgar]

I think it's pecan.

You don't really think I would have made it THAT easy, do you? :devil:

 

[Scotty]

Farmwood!!

 

[Skewer]

I feel obligated to guess:

Tickle Tongue

 

[Edward Cypher]

Or it could be Crape Myrtle well those are my guesses. Hope everyone gets in on this one.

 

[Skewer]

I'll also say Lilac, I have no idea if that grows in Texas or not. I imagine that being some kind of flowering tree/bush.

 

[BarryE]

box elder

 

[Karl_99]

spalted pecan

 

[Edgar]

I feel obligated to guess:

Tickle Tongue

Nice try

Even if that were correct, it would not be accepted because that's an AKA. The proper guess for this contest would be "Prickly Ash" - but don't bother, because that's not it either. :biggrin:

 

[Twist-Ed]

hackberry

 

[lyonsacc]

Sumac?

 

[lyonsacc]

Apricot

 

[Karl_99]

Buckthorn

 

[Karl_99]

Sweet gum

 

[jcm71]

Flame Box Elder

 

[alankulwicki7]

Acacia

 

[Twist-Ed]

Elm

 

[alankulwicki7]

western soapberry

 

[alankulwicki7]

honey mesquite

 

[lyonsacc]

cottonwood

 

[Twist-Ed]

Cedar ?

 

[alankulwicki7]

crapemyrtle

 

[alankulwicki7]

american elm

 

[lyonsacc]

Maple

 

[lyonsacc]

boxwood

 

[MikeG]

I think it's pecan.

You don't really think I would have made it THAT easy, do you? :devil:

I had hoped.
Well then if it came from Columbus, it must be oak.

 

[lyonsacc]

scarlet oak

 

[Bear-31]

It looks a little bit light...but how about platypus Gum

 

[Edgar]

Great guesses guys, but no one has it yet

We do have most of what's been guessed so far on the farm - well, no apricots and a couple of others.

We do have Acacia, but there's only about a thousand varieties of acacia, so that would not be an acceptable answer (IF it is an acacia :alien::alien

 

[Twist-Ed]

sycamor

 

[lyonsacc]

Monterey cypress

 

[Twist-Ed]

juniper

 

[Edgar]

I think it's pecan.

You don't really think I would have made it THAT easy, do you? :devil:

I had hoped.
Well then if it came from Columbus, it must be oak.

The joke in Columbus is that it's "the home of live oaks and dead folks"

But that's not it either...

 

[Twist-Ed]

Last try................

locust ?

 

[lyonsacc]

Hickory

 

[lyonsacc]

ash