• Introduction
  • Softwoods
    • Eastern Red Cedar
    • Eastern White Pine
    • Bald Cypress
    • Eastern Hemlock
    • Spruce
  • Hardwoods
    • Ring Porous Hardwoods
      • Chestnut
      • Elm
      • Fox Grape
      • Hickory
      • Hackberry
      • Black Locust
      • The Oaks
      • American Ash
      • Hercules Club
      • Mulberry
      • Paw Paw
      • Redbud
      • Sassafras
      • Sumacs
      • Trumpet Vine
    • Diffuse Porous Hardwoods
      • American Beech
      • Cherry
      • Cottonwood
      • Holly
      • Maple
      • Red Gum
      • Tulip Poplar
      • Black Willow
      • Sycamore
      • Birch
    • Semi-ring Porous Hardwoods
      • Black Walnut
      • Common Persimmon
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Wood and Charcoal
Identification

Introduction

Creating a Southern  Maryland Type Collection

Wood and Charcoal Anatomy Basics

Key to Softwoods

Key to Hardwoods

Softwoods

Eastern Red Cedar

Eastern White Pine

Bald Cypress

Eastern Hemlock

Spruce

Hardwoods -
Ring Porous Hardwoods

Chestnut

Elm

Fox Grape

Hickory

Hackberry

Black Locust

The Oaks

American Ash

Hercules Club

Mulberry

Pawpaw

Redbud

Sassafras

Sumacs

Trumpet Vine


Diffuse Porous Hardwoods

American Beech

Cherry

Cottonwood

Holly

Maple

Red Gum

Tulip Poplar

Black Willow

Sycamore

Birch


Semi-ring Porous Hardwoods

Black Walnut

Common Persimmon

    Wood & Charcoal Identification in Southern Maryland
    By Harry Alden

Trumpet Vine

Trumpet Vine (Campsis radicans / Bignoniaceae).The genus Campsis is composed of 2 species of woody vines (lianas) nativeto eastern Asia. It flowers in July and August and grows in thickets and fence rows. It is very plentiful in old tobacco fields in southern Maryland. This is not a commercial lumber species and thus, no technical information is available on the properties of the wood.


Characteristics found in the
Trumpet Vine (Campsis radicans):

  • Ring porous
  • Tangential/Ulmiform latewood
  • Spirals in vessels
  • I/V pits medium (8-12)
  • Rays 1-4 seriate & heterocellular

WOOD SLIDES
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CHARCOAL SLIDES

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