Has a smell to when we split it that I couldn't put my finger on. Looked like smooth white birch at the top 3/4 of the tree but at the bottom is much darker and rougher, looked like maple from a distance. It was moderately stringy when we ran in through the 20 ton splitter. I figured it was black birch from looking at other pictures but a local guy thinks it's white poplar. What do you guys think?
Populus genus, Aspen specifically (which is commonly called poplar) It could be white poplar, but IIRC the furrows in white poplar are distinctly diamond-shaped. For sure it's some variety of aspen, and I'm leaning towards the quaking variety, populus tremuloides.
That’s poplar of the white variety. Black birch looks a little bit like white birch in coloring and paper, but it can also look like black cherry. White poplar bark is greenish gray up high and sticks to the wood. Isn’t paper(y)
Very cool yin and yang symbols on a couple of the rounds in the first pic. Top left and bottom right.
Aspen and Poplar and not interchangeable where I am. Specifically Quaking Aspen and Tulip Poplar. They are not similar at all. The Aspen in my woods are a bane mostly. Not a lot of Tulip, but it's much better as firewood than the Aspen. I have joked before that I don't know how timber cutters get an Aspen to the mill without it rotting on the trailer.
Yeah, well tulip poplar/yellow poplar are just popular names for tulip magnolia. Neither are actually in the poplar family of trees. Cottonwood, aspen and the many poplars are all in the populus family of trees. There are misnomers in common names for cedar trees as well. It gets confusing. People tend to communicate and use terms they are familiar with.
Yes, Black Locust is called yellow locust, Short leaf pine is called Yellow Pine, Willow Oak is called Pin Oak, TOH is called Copel, …. Latin is the universal language.
