No kiddin? I heard mulberry looks simular and oxidizes like osage.
When you take off that sapwood,let me know if the spring wood is reddish. Reason being, is I have a stave that is supposal mulberry. Wide rings. Gold like osage. But the early wood is reddish. I honestly don't know what it is.
Everyone that lives around Russ have gone out and bought a pit bull to guard their trees since he started making bows. I don't have any trees that are worth cutting in my yard yet so I'm safe, unless he starts to make arrows out of Red Tipped Patina's!