Update on okra-wood concotion- I caved in and called my aunt this weekend to ask her about the wood. She really couldn't tell me what the wood is good for, just that she has done it and it works, afterwards the conversation moved to my upcoming wedding on next september and all the many concotions she has to give me so I can make sure I keep my fiance happy until the date-
Okay we're from Haiti, so I've tried my best to translate all her words to English to the best of my knowledge- If anyone has light on this please chime in- Thanks. This is the conversation I had in PM land with Mahalialee4 which leads me to thinking that maplewood is not the wood she used but Pinetar-
This will totally clear up the mystery for you.
http://www.wildwnc.org/trees/Pinus_strobus.html
Here is a direct quote from the site:
"Associated Forest Cover
White pine is a major component of five Society of American Foresters forest cover types (70): Red Pine (Type 15), White Pine-Northern Red Oak-Red Maple (Type 20), Eastern White Pine (Type 21), White Pine-Hemlock (Type 22), White Pine-Chestnut Oak (Type 51). None of these are climax types, although the White Pine-Hemlock type may just precede the climax hemlock types, and Type 20 is very close to a climax or an alternating type of climax on the sandy outwash plains of New England (42). White pine occurs in 23 other forest types:
1 Jack Pine
5 Balsam Fir
14 Northern Pin Oak
18 Paper Birch
19 Gray Birch-Red Maple
23 Eastern Hemlock
24 Hemlock-Yellow Birch
25 Sugar Maple-Beech-Yellow Birch
26 Sugar Maple-Basswood
30 Red Spruce-Yellow Birch
31 Red Spruce-Sugar Maple-Beech
32 Red Spruce
33 Red Spruce-Balsam Fir
35 Paper Birch-Red Spruce-Balsam Fir
37 Northern White-Cedar
39 Black Ash-American Elm-Red Maple
44 Chestnut Oak
45 Pitch Pine
53 White Oak
57 Yellow-Poplar
59 Yellow-Poplar-White Oak-Northern Red Oak
60 Beech-Sugar Maple
108 Red Maple
White pine also grows with pitch pine (Pinus rigida), jack pine (P. banksiana), shortleaf pine (P. echinata), sweet birch (Betula lenta), bigtooth aspen (Populus grandidentata), quaking aspen (P. tremuloides), black cherry (Prunus serotina), black oak (Quercus velutina), white oak (Q. alba), and various hickories (Carya spp.). The ground vegetation in a white pine stand varies greatly, as evidenced by the number of forest cover types in which it is a major or minor component. Beneath pure or nearly pure stands of white pine, understory plants usually are sparse compared to those in the pine-hardwood mixtures (70). "
So you see the correlation then. It is all growing together all over the place like a part of the white pine family. So it could be the maple growing with the pines. Hope this helps. Post this to the board if you like. Bonjour.
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thanks- Okay I got the wrong name- I just panicked for moment- The actual tree name is Bois de pin ou boispin. I went to home depot to actually make sure that I was saying the right name and it is not maple wood. Apparently there lots of home remedies that can be done with trees. Thanks.
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erable -maple (do not know how to do the grave A^accent on the computer.Anyway maple sugar is what we get from this tree. Here they speak two national languages...English and French Canadian. French Can. sucrerie...for the maple bush and for the maple grove...erabliere( overhead accents missing. Du pain is (bread)Is the word l'arbre (the tree) or is that the correct spelling as you have posted it....l'abre? Does she mean breadfruit? or some type of bread?
> Post your question on the board as there are several French speaking members. Between us we will try to figure this out. Ask her to spell it for you. Hope this helps Bonjour
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Mahalialee4 do you speak french if so you might be able to help with whole thing... I just called my aunt again who explain that she used "L'abre a pain" which I assume is maplewood in english. Is that so?? I'm afraid I might be mistranslating the ingredients.... does anyone else speak french and knows what maplewood translates to?