I always thought it would make a pretty floor as flooring.
I'v never seen it as lumber though. I suspect it cracks and splits really bad.
I don't know how bad it splits, but, other than being hard on the saws, it's also pretty hard to get long enough, straight enough logs to make boards with. At least in MO, they are twisty trees and if you have trees big enough and straight enough to make fence posts, you can get a pretty penny for them. But, beautiful if you could!
