Welcome to the FHC Vic Great to have you. Looks like TOH to me. Being a coffee drinker i cant say TOH smells like any coffee that i know, but everyones olfactory is different.
Welcome to the forum. What region are you (and the tree in question) located? Looks like somewhere south of the mid-Atlantic, if I’m seeing this year’s green buds in the background.
Instead of working last night, I kept researching the web about this downed tree and I came across a description for TOH. I never knew much about it until last night. However, this downed tree has a very long trunk and the branches are way up high on it and there were no trees growing nearby. That baffled me, if it's TOH.
TOH has very thick blunt branch ends where they terminate. I do agree there’s certain features that are reminiscent of TOH. One big clue that it’s TOH would be if under the bark it smells like rancid peanut butter. I have yet to encounter another species with that stench
Welcome to the forum Vic This is a great place to learn all about different woods and all thing related to wood.
New pic is not TOH! What are you thinking Eric? Kinda has me stumped. Sort of looks like red maple bark but twig structure is definitely not.
Here are some more pictures. The cross-cut branch is about 3 inches (first try of my new Silky BigBoy). I made the close-up picture cause I wanted to ID it.
The bark is very distinct. I'm thinking young butternut/white walnut. Buds look correct. Bucking a piece and splitting along the center to check for a chambered pith would confirm.
Pin oaks limbs look like that. Bark too. The buds and new branch structure don't look like it though. Pin oak branches are usually all intertwined together. At least yard trees like at my parents. Pin oaks here arnt like that but they're woods grown. I definitely see the medullary rays in that cross cut section.
I’ll get a bark pic of butternut, or what I believe to be a butternut hickory. They grow twice as fast as other hickory’s. Probably lots of trees in the mountains I’m not familiar with.
Hello all. New here. Just installed a wood insert last fall and recently started helping a family member clear some trees from new property. I've become fascinated with the woodsman's life. From a recent cutting of young trees I have a small sample of this. Judging only from this bark and wood I'm guessing walnut or hickory. It's from a heavily wooded area in lower MI.
Was looking up wood identification methods and stumbled on this. Found it pretty interesting. Could be fun to cut up and polish know specimens, photograph, and start a data base here. If the links been posted before just ignore me, i didnt read the thread from the begining. Hardwood Anatomy | The Wood Database
