Basswood or Soft Maple

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thewoodlands

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Aug 25, 2009
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I still have wood up top that I bucked and split last year, this is some of it. I'm not sure what it is but you have hard maple,cherry,some basswood and soft maple in that same area any thoughts on the I.D.


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Well the white is soft maple the other turning yellow Idk but probally bass.
 
Smokinjay is correct IMHO.
 
I'm with Jay. The split looks like silver maple. That round is Basswood without a doubt.
 
smokinjay said:
Well the white is soft maple the other turning yellow Idk but probally bass.

Smokin I was just reading the replies and the split is from the same tree has the round.


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zapny said:
smokinjay said:
Well the white is soft maple the other turning yellow Idk but probally bass.

Smokin I was just reading the replies and the split is from the same tree has the round.


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Split it lets see. Bark looks much different but been wrong before.
 
bark can be extremely variable - even within the same individual tree. thats why IDing tree species from just a block of wood can be very difficult.
 
FLINT said:
bark can be extremely variable - even within the same individual tree. thats why IDing tree species from just a block of wood can be very difficult.

Agree splitt it!
 
Jags said:
If those are from the same tree, somebody grafted a basswood on top of your silver maple. ;-P

lol +1
 
FLINT said:
bark can be extremely variable - even within the same individual tree. thats why IDing tree species from just a block of wood can be very difficult.

Dang near impossible... but it's fun anyway. :p
 
Battenkiller said:
FLINT said:
bark can be extremely variable - even within the same individual tree. thats why IDing tree species from just a block of wood can be very difficult.

Dang near impossible... but it's fun anyway. :p

yep if you can nail 50 percent your pretty darn good....Unlessyourlee
 
the_dude said:
I'm with Jay. The split looks like silver maple. That round is Basswood without a doubt.

When I said without a doubt, I really meant their was some doubt. If that is the same tree, I say silver maple. Upon closer inspection of the picture, the fissures on the round look larger than what I have seen on the typical basswood. Either way, you got some real mediocre firewood there. %-P
 
The pics of Zapny's woods and his location in upstate NY (I think) make me think Red Maple is a lot more likely than Silver Maple. Silver Maple is strictly a riverside tree where I live (PA). I think it grows in a wider variety of habitats in the midwest.
 
Wood Duck said:
The pics of Zapny's woods and his location in upstate NY (I think) make me think Red Maple is a lot more likely than Silver Maple. Silver Maple is strictly a riverside tree where I live (PA). I think it grows in a wider variety of habitats in the midwest.


Not a red maple on the property that I have ever seen, in the area this wood comes from it's either silver maple or basswood and I think it's the basswood. .


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I remember seeing this picture before, maybe from a long lost post.
Looks like 2 different species to me........ Red Maple/Basswood.
Red Maple likes to stain in the heartwood (like your picture) and it usually travels down to the trunk.
I've never seen soft maples look yellowish or have cross grain characteristics like the specimen on the right.


WoodButcher
 
oldspark said:
It looks like a maple leaf there also.

Oldspark it's in the same area with some sugar maple, I think it's basswood.


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