SXL925
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Hello, I'm new here but I have searched and come up with nothing on this one. Here's some pictures, I was told this is Bomgillian wood, but i've done searches on google and came up with nothing.
What kind of wood is this?
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It looks mostly out of focus to me.
But that definitely does not grow in our area. So I have no idea...
But that definitely does not grow in our area. So I have no idea...
Agreeing with both gentlemen here: out of focus and a Populus sp. 
I would have gone into the cottonwood group rather than aspen myself. But hard to tell from the pictures.
"Bomgillian wood"....hmmmmm...sounds colloquial.
Sylvia
I would have gone into the cottonwood group rather than aspen myself. But hard to tell from the pictures.
"Bomgillian wood"....hmmmmm...sounds colloquial.
Sylvia
Hers's a link I found to some bark pictures.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...mage_result&resnum=9&ct=image&ved=0CBkQ9QEwCA
The fifth pic looks like yours it's Populus tremula(aspen).
Does it look like a match?
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...mage_result&resnum=9&ct=image&ved=0CBkQ9QEwCA
The fifth pic looks like yours it's Populus tremula(aspen).
Does it look like a match?
Anoher vote for aspen. The wood in the center is darker than "normal", but that is likely early stages of heart rot/decay.
BTW...I gotta ask because it is in the picture: That is not the saw you used to cut it is it?
BTW...I gotta ask because it is in the picture: That is not the saw you used to cut it is it?
SXL925
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Thanks for the wisdom everyone. I could have tried finding the good camera but what made me so curious is the Bomgillian... why all these people around here talk about it but there's no information about it.... Thanks!
Definetely not the saw I used to cut it with, lmao. That would of been no fun whatsoever. Just set the chunk of wood on the workbench for the lighting.
Definetely not the saw I used to cut it with, lmao. That would of been no fun whatsoever. Just set the chunk of wood on the workbench for the lighting.
bigtreeguy
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It looks like Poplar sp.to me also. The dark wood is likely from a fungus.........that probably killed the tree from the looks of it.
Hotrod_Heart
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Yes, i would have to agree with Bob on this one, And Btw i found out tonight that Bomgillian Is just Native tounge For us Northern Mn Norwegian Folk, also and another slang term for it, Is Sour poplar the woods just north of the farm is full of this crap wood. A way to tell the difference between "sour" poplar and "regular" poplar is the greyish bark color and the dark scarring of the tree.
SXL925
ArboristSite Lurker
Yes, i would have to agree with Bob on this one, And Btw i found out tonight that Bomgillian Is just Native tounge For us Northern Mn Norwegian Folk, also and another slang term for it, Is Sour poplar the woods just north of the farm is full of this crap wood. A way to tell the difference between "sour" poplar and "regular" poplar is the greyish bark color and the dark scarring of the tree.
AHHHH Icicicic, very very interesting. Thanks for everyone's help!
It is boxelder. My stepdad calls it bomgillian too. We just cut a tree that looks exactly like this!Hello, I'm new here but I have searched and come up with nothing on this one. Here's some pictures, I was told this is Bomgillian wood, but i've done searches on google and came up with nothing.
I really do not think so. I vote aspen or cottonwood
It's defiantly not box elder! See the diamond shaped lenticles on the bark, that is poplar all day long! The aspen I've seen have a bit more white in the bark then what is pictured so id lean more towards a young white poplar https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populus_alba
So these things are not native to the United States? Somebody played a cruel joke on us cause these things suck, haha.
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That first picture has some pinkish that could lead to a boxelder guess. And perhaps if that is another name for boxelder. But the rest of those pictures are most certainly not boxelder...
Pretty sure that's Balm of Gilead, or Balsam Poplar. Which would account for people calling it "Bomgillian."
Great call. I bet you are spot on with that name! Never heard it before, but makes perfect sense.
It's been a long time since I lived in the northeast, but Balm of Gilead is a lesser-known poplar. You don't see it often. It has some medicinal properties, which make it important in the herbal world. For the rest of us, it's just poplar.
