Milling Chinaberry

[Seachaser]

Anyone ever milled chinaberry? Is it good for anything?
I’ve got lots of it. I know my wife’s grandmother use to use small chinaberry for cooking breakfast in an old wood stove. She claimed it heated faster than any other of our native woods.

 

[Joe Kidd]

From the net "All parts of the plant, especially the fruit are poisonous to humans, some livestock, and mammals, including cats and dogs"
I'd leave it alone. Wood is soft, almost like pear.

http://www.invasive.org/weedcd/pdfs/wow/chinaberry-tree.pdf

 

[Seachaser]

Thanks for the replies. Yes, grew up around the stuff my entire life. Watched birds eat the berries many times with no ill effects. Another invasive species from the orient. If I didn’t mow, our entire orchard would be Chinaberry and Japanese privet.