Is Russian Olive A Hardwood

It has a strong cat urine odor when turned green and i m sure any lumber would.

Is russian olive a hardwood.

Does anyone know anything about using it for firewood. Russian olive wood burns very slowly. I am allergic to russian olive when it is growing. I have turned many smaller bowls from it but getting from green rough turning to final turning after a kind of controlled air drying without checks is problematic.

I have a russian olive that i cut down about 4 months ago and has been sitting in 100f weather for three weeks. Fires made solely with this wood are difficult to start. Technically olive is a part of the oleaceæ family and is more closely related to ash fraxinus spp and lilac syringa vulgaris. It has a sentimental and religious significance to several cultures and religions.

Don t burn it until it has seasoned for at least one year. Called hardwood cuttings roots will form more easily for this particular tree. Begin the propagation process in the winter after the russian olive tree has gone dormant for the season and the wood of the tree is at least 1 year old. Olivewood olea spp is sometimes confused with russian olive elaeagnus angustifolia though it bears little relation to true olive and is in an entirely different family of trees.

Russian olive is not closely related to the wood that is commonly referred to as olivewood olea europaea and may be distinguished from true olive by the endgrain. Russian olive elaeagnus angustifolia while generally small and branching russian olive trees can produce wood that ranges in color from yellowish brown to darker golden brown sometimes with a greenish hue and light yellow white sapwood. Olive is diffuse porous while russian olive is ring porous. It also won t burn and will produce excess smoke.

Europe africa middle east olivewood is an exotic wood that is native to europe africa and the middle east. Most russian olive at most will be 12 inch diameter at 5 feet with all kinds of branching above that.