Help with wood ID please?

Got these two rounds from a pile at a cemetery in Eastern Long Island. (Rest was.oak, locust, maple).

Wide growth rings, a bit scaly bark (a bit rougher than fir).
Bright white sapwood, dark green heart wood when just split . Wide growth rings are similar to locust, but the bark definitely not locust. At first split I thought black walnut; it's that dark. But green not brown.
Upon splitting the dark green it quickly lightens up.

Quite a strong smell, don't know how to describe. Not sour like red oak, not like locust. "Greenish" smell...
Pretty heavy, feels quite wet.

Bark is not like (tulip) poplar I could find online.
Some redbud bark looks like it, but it's not reddish inside the bark. Moreover, redbud I know (down south) grows slowly. This tree (round) was 28 years old.at abia foot in diameter.
Cottonwood bark also looks different I think.

Any suggestions?

 

Looks like it could be a Cherry species.

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Hm,. I seen how you reach that conclusion.
I'll compare the smell with a wild cherry here.

The pics uploaded here look far more brown/red than in real life. It was really moss green, as deep as the dark brown from walnut.

I've split at least a cord of cherry and this did not point me to that - BUT I don't know how many different cherry species are out there. Maybe I got a new-for-me one here...

 

The wood grain reminds me a lot of catalpa, and the bark isn’t too far off.

 

Interesting. I see some bark out there that looks similar indeed (but also a lot that doesn't).

 

Im with Eric on the catalpa. Grain and color look correct for catalpa.

 

Okay. Catalpa is present here. And it would do well in a park like setting at a cemetery.

Can you describe the smell of catalpa?

I'll still compare the smell with cherry tomorrow.

Thank you all, and Happy New Year!

 

Kinda hard to describe as its been a while since i cut any and sniffed. Its not a bad smell according to my ol factory. The wood texture reminds me of sassafras as does the weight when dried. It has really long beans and huge leaves.. Check the ground for any remnants.

Ill dig up some old pics of logs on here later. Have to PU supper now.

 

Shade intolerant tree. Wood smells kind of sweet/spicy. Looking at it under the light from different angles will show a subtle sheen to the grain. Today I actually brought home a small chunk I found from a roadside cutting and split it. First time scoring any in probably 5 years. Not something that I’d seek out.

 

My first guess was Catalpa… bark looked maybe a little off but the wood color and grain looked correct…

 

Yes, Brad, the grain does have similarities with sassafras indeed.
Eric, yes, I know of the beans - nothing left.where this one came from though. I have a catalpa nearby here and I'll take a look there soon to compare bark.
The sheen I see too. The bark you have is identical.

I think it's catalpa
(Still going to smell some cherry tomorrow...)

Thanks all!

 

Catalpa in my PU from a 2020 score. Cedar log on the right.

 

Yup, similar!

 

Probably shouldn’t take wood from a cemetery. Could be haunted but I don’t believe in superstition myself. It’s bad luck to be superstitious.

 

Lol. It was dark too when I took it...

Then again, cleaning up a place like that is a sign of respect for those who are permanently present there, imo.

 

Unless he's dying to get it!

 

In the dark? In a cemetery? You are one badazz dude. You’d probably scare the boogeyman.

 

Maybe he was looking for dead wood!

 

Nah. Just one that's not superstitious. To stay in the scene, I was excited to hear and then see (the silhouette of) a great horned owl in an oak on my property.