To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Apple wood
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:44:10 -0600
At 03:48 PM 2/20/2004 -0600, Steve wrote:
I have some rosybloom crabs that seem to produce rock rather than wood. The
wood is dense and reddish.
Several of the red-fleshed crabs in my collection also have red/purple wood
- Winter Red Flesh & Almata, don't recall exactly about some of the others.
Vic Caron sent me some wood from a seedling of Hampshire that she's growing
out, and it's got the darkest purple wood I've ever seen - looks like you
squashed a pokeberry on it.
I think I discussed this with Del at some time in the past, and he
indicated that the pigment in those woods is not particularly stable, but I
can't swear that I didn't misunderstand/misinterpret him.
There is a 'Deming's Purple' black walnut that has a red/purple tint, but I
don't know how stable that coloration is in the cured lumber.