Cherry birch??

Hello, i took a leaf snap of this and it said Cherry birch. Does anyone know if its good for my indoor bbq. It smells cherryish and maybe a little sweet

 

Looks like black birch to me. Good stove fuel.


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I believe that’s the same as black birch. Put a twig in your mouth and it should taste like birch beer or mint gum. Depending on the sucker I guess.

 

Ya little further research its basically a birch, like you said good stove wood. Im sad i thought i had a big cherry score. The article says it is mistaken for cherry alot. Thanks

 

There aren't too many woods that are not good for an indoor BBQ.
No evergreens ( yeah cedar plank salmon - you still shouldn't burn or scorch the cedar) also elm and sycamore

 

Probably not good for the cooker but it’s hotter than oak in the stove. Split it ASAP. Nothing good ever comes from leaving it in the round. It’ll rot before it drys.

 

Woodsman uses black birch to grow his Shiitake mushrooms.. That looks like a good diameter for mushroom growth!! Woodsman , do you have an update for your Morning Wood thread. Any harvest yet?

Morning Wood...

 

Did you use a leaf app???

 

I used plant snap. Here is the pic.

 

I can see why it did that. Cherry leaves and birch leaves are really similar. I had taken pictures of these leaves that were maple similar but too small as a tree. Wanted to know about it but it’s likely the ID would be collaborative

 

It's more often called black birch around here .

 

Love the screen name, definitely fits you when you find species like cherry birch. Is that a hybrid? Can’t say I’ve heard that too many times on FHC.

 

Thanks, i always thought it was cherry, iv got a few on my property but never cut one down. I found this property the other day on craigs list and these ladies wanted like 40 trees removed so an excavator can come in and pick rocks. Turns out its gotta be more like 60 or 70. Theres quite a few of these trees and when i cut the first one down thinking it was cherry but it smelled more like wintergreen. Splits real nice

 

Great score. Black birch is great firewood. More or same btu as oak but dries way faster. I take all I can get. Fortunately I have plenty of them in my woods.

 

Black birch. By far my favorite firewood. I love the wintergreen smell and it burns HOT. High BTUs.

 

The Wintergreen smell is usually identical to Birch Beer. Real Birch Beer is brewed using the twigs and bark from this tree. If you scratch the bark of any of the twigs or branches is should be very strong.
The tree is a Birch, typically called Black Birch, also referred to as Cherry Birch or sometimes Sweet Birch but has nothing to do with Cherry Trees. I think they call it that because the exceptionally hard wood turns a beautiful red/redish brown as it ages. Like Jon_E, it is one of my all time favorite woods for heating, grilling and carving. If you've got a real supplly there, you can't get a more durable & beautiful wood flooring.
It is great for smoking stuff in the BBQ or smoker, using it green so it doesn't start to burn.
40 -60 acres of that to cut... I feel like somebody just told me the guy in line before me got the winning lottery ticket. Hoard, hoard way Woodwhore.

 

Good to hear guys, ill be puttin some up for the indoor grill definitely. Im really going above and beyond for these ladies, they have 20 acres and dont want to cut wood at all, they buy it now. There are alot of trees in the way of getting access to the quarry and they need them gone. I want to be invited back after this project. Im pretty much working it as if it were my own. I keep the brush nice and the stumps low. I was talking to them today about 6 red oaks that are dead standing and they said i can absolutely have those when im done with this area. It was kind of a rush cutting those maples while standing on the rocks, epic crash when they came down. There are dozens of the cherry birch that are pretty large in diameter. Basically all the trees in these pics need to go asap. Its gonna be a hell of a week. The pic at my wood pile is 4 loads but i cut and split all of the dry slash and dead standing that i brought home.

 

Black birch bark is easily mistaken for cherry.
I got some nice rounds last fall and cut them for bowl blanks. Beautiful grain and color

 

Wow, looks like some nice stuff

 

Black birch for shiitake mushrooms is proving to be excellent. The mycelium colonization of birch logs has been beyond awesome. A couple weeks ago when it dipped down to 33 one morning some of the logs that are far enough along in the colonization process were “shocked” into producing mushrooms. We got our first flush of shiitakes seven days later!