I was picking up some logs/limbs this morning; took a bunch of branches for someone and dumped them in exchange for the "good" pieces. I got some
chucks of catalpa for carving that I know are good, but the main thing I got i am not so sure about. Via email, he thought it was a non fruiting pear like
Bradford, but it was not. I have seen this stuff around a lot but don't know the name off the top of my head. The shape is bizarre; if I sliced it up and
took pictures of successive slices and played it back as an animation, it would look like an amoeba break dancing. I kept pieces that were about as reasonable
as it gets. Lots of littles projections out of the bark that aren't quite thorns. Anyway:
and rolled to a stop next to a small Yoshino Cherry (ornamental hybrid) in my very own front yard. Not quite twins separated at birth,
but extremely close. Mine isn't as misshapen as the logs and limbs but it's much younger and does have flat spots, bulges and "fat Ys" where
branches are. The bark is almost dentical; mine has fewer of the rough protrusions, but it does have them. The leaves are pretty much dead on. I am not sure
it is Yoshino, but almost definitely closely related if not.
