Wood ID needed

I bought a cord of slabwood sight-unseen, it seems to be quite a mixture - but not nearly as 'oaky' as was stated before I bought it.

A lot of it I'm having trouble identifying; the surface bark is basically gray/brown, but quite reddish underneath. I almost thought it was pine at first, but it's much heavier, plus it's a real bear to split. Inside it's a very light color, and on most of the pieces the grain can hardly be seen. The piece in the picture below has a much more twisted grain than most, but all of it is tough to split.

Any ideas?

chinkapin_oak said:

looks like a piece of oak that was cut next to a knot. Do you have any more pictures of other pieces, that have the bark or the end-grain? I could give a better answer if I saw either one.

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No other pictures at the moment. I already had hacked on this one some, but I picked it for a picture since it had more bark on it than any of the other pieces that were nearby. I can try to get another picture later..

It doesn't have any smell at all, really. Now, pecan is a very interesting guess - does pecan have reddish inner bark like that, though, and such white interior wood? I've looked hard for pecan around here but haven't seen any, although I just planted two [supposedly] cold-hardy pecans in the back yard last summer.

Thanks for the guesses! Maybe I should take another picture.

If all else fails, I work in a lab where I can fairly easily get a DNA sequence from some of the outer bark material, that will be a definitive ID...