Air dried walnut and poplar. YMMV.

Hmmm... I'm sure I have some Black Walnut & maybe some English
(Persian)
Walnut curing out back (must be time to weigh 'em in!)
but no poplar. I'm guessing you mean an aspen (for the colour) rather
than a balsam or cottonwood? Are they all much the same, turning wise?


He probably means Liriodendron tulipifera, a member of the magnolia family
sold as tulip poplar, yellow poplar, or just poplar.
http://forestry.about.com/library/tree/bltulip.htm

That's a relief because I tried turning a japanese poplar P. Sieboldi(sp?)
with no luck. I think I botched the drying though.

It's nice to know that we aussies aren't the only ones with misleading
common names.

True poplars, like aspen are stringier, almost bulletproof in drying from
a
rough, and lack the greenish color tulip poplar can have.
http://forestry.about.com/library/tree/bltrem.htm

My favorite, because in both Greek and French, it's called "tree of
women's
tongues" because the shape of the leaf makes it wag constantly.

I know the ones, we have 'em lining a couple of streets in the plusher
suburbs. Now that you've told me that I'll probably be poked by the cook
for s******ing every time we drive past...

- Andy