Poplar, Eastern Cottonwood? Tree ID

Looks like Aspen to me

Lots of heat for a short burn. It will be ready by fall.

roxys dad said:

Would'nt aspen have needles ? this one had leaves in summer

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Nope. Aspen is a deciduous tree.

http://www.macphailwoods.org/images/tree/large-toothed-aspen-tree.jpg

The pulp looks like the pic below, but the bark is different. The stuff in the pic burned real nice. Started easy and smelled great. Just have no idea what it is.

Yeah that stuff looks like popple to me. Will season in less than a year and will burn hot & fast leaving almost no coals.Using mine up as I write,good shoulder wood.Myway, me thinks you got cherry.

Around here is is simply popple. Cut and split now will be ready to burn in the fall. Good for shoulder season fires.

Frist pic's are silver maple.

smokinjay said:

Frist pic's are silver maple.

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+1

looks like maple to me, too
the round on the left was closer to the ground I'd wager, too.

Heartwood looks a bit orange, but I don't get to cut a lot of maple. Especially silver maple.

Boys, It is definately NOT silver maple!

smokinjay said:

Frist pic's are silver maple.

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Just an observation, I can't remember a wood ID thread where you didn't guess Silver Maple Jay. :lol:
You must see them in your sleep! Or are you just messin' with us?
The crazy part is how often you're right.... Were you the guy who came up with the theory on how to pass a multiple choice test by just sticking with "C" for every answer?

Bark doesn't look right for Aspen to me.

I'll throw out Box Elder (aka Manitoba Maple)

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"Round here it's called popple. Not much heat, fast burn.

The old timers (my father being one, who spent their whole lives working in the woods) used to say, "the only thing popple is good for is a barn floor". The interpretation would be, a soft hardwood that stood up well to cow, pig, horse hooves and their urine/manure. We never burnt it in the wood stoves. The new EPA stoves provide better utilization of all types of wood.

May be a silly question, but by popple, to people mean poplar?

And do people differentiate between real poplar and yellow poplar (i.e., the tulip tree so popular around the NE that is actually a type of magnolia tree)?

I use the word popple to lump several similiar trees into one category....fast growing low btu wood,rots quickly,not worth expending much energy to aquire. poplar,cottonwood,aspen.As far as tulip, I don't think I've ever had any.

redhorse said:

May be a silly question, but by popple, to people mean poplar?

And do people differentiate between real poplar and yellow poplar (i.e., the tulip tree so popular around the NE that is actually a type of magnolia tree)?

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Around here popple = poplar = both big tooth and quaking aspen.

redhorse said:

May be a silly question, but by popple, to people mean poplar?

And do people differentiate between real poplar and yellow poplar (i.e., the tulip tree so popular around the NE that is actually a type of magnolia tree)?

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Popple = Poplar or Aspen. Usually the yellow or tulip poplar is not included in this but some folks do. I think perhaps because the tulip poplar does not grow in all areas.