{"id":1944,"date":"2016-05-18T04:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodturningpens.com\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2016-04-08T12:18:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T16:18:40","slug":"1944-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodturningpens.com\/1944-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackberry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The wood commonly referred to as Hackberry is known to botanists as Celtis occidentalis<\/em>. C. occidentalis<\/em> is widely distributed in the eastern United States from the southern New England States through central New York west in southern Ontario to North and South Dakota. Northern outliers are found in southern Quebec, western Ontario, southern Manitoba, and southeastern Wyoming. The range extends south from western Nebraska to northeastern Colorado and northwestern Texas, then east to Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina, with scattered occurrences in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.<\/p>\n While that all seems clear enough, in the lumber trade, “Hackberry” can also, and in its native range frequently does, include C. laevigata<\/em>, a closely related species that does, however, have a different, although frequently overlapping, native range. C. laevigata<\/em> ranges south from southeastern Virginia to southern Florida, west to central Texas and northeastern Mexico, and north to western Oklahoma, southern Kansas, Missouri, southern Illinois, southern Indiana, and western Kentucky. It is local in Maryland, the Rio Grande Valley, and northeastern Mexico. Its range overlaps the southern part of the range of C. occidentalis<\/em>.<\/p>\n In distinguishing between the two species, common names might provide help in that C. occidentalis<\/em> is commonly known as common hackberry, sugarberry, nettletree, beaverwood, northern hackberry, and American hackberry. C laevigata<\/em> is commonly known as sugarberry, sugar hackberry, hackberry, Texas sugarberry, southern hackberry, and lowland hackberry.<\/p>\n