Not the best Pic for identification but looks like it may be a chittum wood

 

Chittamwood - Oklahoma State University

Learn more about the characteristics used in plant identification for Chittamwood also known as Gum Bumelia, Woolly Buckthorn, Chittam, Gum Elastic and Gum Bully.

extension.okstate.edu

This might help.

 

I have one of those apps on my phone that identifies plants and trees. When I scanned Douglas’s pic, it came back as this:

 

Don't think Chittamwood. Only the leaves are similar, every thing else, bark, berry's flowers are different.

Looking at the pictures Dennis shared, maybe. Looking at the internet for additional details on the the waxy leaf privet, very different.

 

Sometime a picture of a picture doesn’t work so well on that app.

 

My wife and I think it might be Indian Hawthorne.

 

Yaupon holly?

 

This is large shrub growing along fence line. It has long thin main stems ths 1"-2" in diameter that grow 6' to 8' or more in height. That is one of the stems horizontal in the picture. The land owner pushed a bunch of it over clearing the fence line last year.

Looks like great stuff for making walking sticks.

 

More research on privet's is making me lean in that direction.

It is an invasive species. Looks like it will make into some nice walking stick.

 

Several of us cut some Aspen saplings a few years back for hiking sticks. Took mine home and did some customizing on it as well as staining it a dark walnut.

 

I took up making walking sticks last year. I make them out what I can find. Cedar, Oak, Bo'arc, Cherry, spruce, willow, AZ Cypress, Ash, hickory, what every I can find. I mostly just hand sand them to 360 grit to finish and then wipe on polyurethane. I do a simple rope lashing with paracord for grip

I only make these on request. I have made 17 so far. I am working on 18 and 19 right now for two Granddaughters who are graduating high school this year. I have 4 more to make after these.

Here is one I called St. George and the Dragon. It is the root wad of a cherry, You see a dragon in it. At a different angle it has the face of a man and his horse.

I just finished an Arizona Cypress root wad stick I call OSU. I used orange wood dye to color the wood, wrapped the handle with black paracord. I also add an OSU Cowboy the top. Gave that one to my Son in law.

 

Here is the Arizona Cypress. The landowner Identified this. Based on other trees in the area, I accept cypress. May not just the AZ variety.

The wood is a very pale white. The orange color come from an orange wood die, not a stain.

I wish I could have found a larger cowboy.

 

Here is the first one I made for Jane. I call this one Wizard. So named by Grand Nephew who hunted with me last fall. He is into Lord of the Rings.

This is a young cedar tree that died and was rotting off at the roots. I scraped all the rotted wood away, sanded, wiped on polyurethane and wrapped the stick with paracord. Tip is a piece of copper water pipe.

 

I am finishing up a cherry stick tonight to give to my next door neighbor Grand daughter for Graduation in two weeks. I'll wrap it tomorrow and take pictures. The wrap with be pink paracord. Nit thrilled about that.

I have another to make from bo'arc for Maryland Granddaughter. She graduates at the end of them month.

 

This one is the only hiking stick with me currently. It’s made from an Arizona cactus that’s made of dead jumping cholla cactus.
After scraping to the wood, then soaking for a week in water it becomes pliable. Built a jig so it would dry rigid again.
There is a 3/8” steel all thread rod ran top to bottom through the middle.
Years ago my FIL ran a chrome plating shop. I had him plate a couple de-miled 20mm cannon shells. One is mounted on top through the case side to the other side. Removed the bullet, got inside with a nut to secure the case to the stick, then filled it with concrete. Pushed the bullet back into the case with epoxy and let dry.
I now have a hiking stick that doubles as a weapon in areas where firearms can’t be carried.

 

Nice Dennis, very nice. Neat wood for a stick.

Jumping cholla cactus. Aptly named for sure. The ones between Deming and Columbus NM have deep scarlet blooms and desert turns blood red in the spring when they bloom