We have some very large catalpas in the suburbs of philly. I'll try and get some pictures but I know my friend has some 40" diameter ones right near his house. He's a tree care foreman so I'm gonna have him keep his eyes open for me.
It's a junk tree here too. A lot of them throughout our local creeks paths and stuff. Don't seem to be too big, look scraggly, and without that ambrosia look pretty plain.
Seems to be a softer wood as well. Can't deny those red colors though.
So a fine woodworker I know seemed to think that's ambrosia. I guess boxelder reacts with the fungus differently than maple and causes red ambrosia instead of the normal color.
That makes sense to me because I've seen boxelder with no red at all. They were leaving the tree on site otherwise I...
I'm not familiar with different varieties of ash but I've never seen the color go that far towards the sap wood. I've seen the dark heart wood but usually at least 6-12" of light wood near the bark.
A friend of mine is a foreman for a large tree outfit and came across a beautiful boxelder that came down in some storms.
He called me and said it was elm and when I saw the pics I immediately knew it was boxelder. The estimator needs to work on his identification skills lol.
About 24" plus...