Wood ID Please

[Haston]

bark like a pine, interior like walnut

Sorry for my ignorance but I'm stumped.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Whack it open and post a picture of the grain, looks kinda like Cherry?

 

[Jason763]

I'd go with choke cherry

 

[Wood Duck]

Where is this tree? Got any more pics?

 

[Haston]

Where is this tree? Got any more pics?

Thank you, all for the replies. Tree was a wind victim here in Bethesda MD last week. County took away the top branches that were near the roadway. The trunk is about 60 feet long and straight as an arrow. The rounds are remarkably solid and heavy. The cherry Im familiar with are not nearly this straight and long. Thanks again for the helpful input.

 

[Dobish]

i'm guessing some kind of cherry.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Thanks for the pictures, always a huge help to ID wood! The white ring around the cutsides and the bark resemble Cherry, but the heartwood is darker than the usual Cherry, but it could be an ornamental tree but it sure resembles Cherry.

Does it have a sweet aroma to it like Cherry does?

 

[Stinkpickle]

I agree with you on the weird pine/walnut combo look. It doesn't look like any cherry I've ever messed with.

 

[Stinkpickle]

Could it be mahogany? I think it might get too cold in MD for that.

 

[mstoelton]

Looks like cherry.

 

[Haston]

Looks like cherry.

I feel better that it's not immediately obvious. I can see it *might* be cherry, but it really is a huge, perfectly straight trunk and the wood is very dense (and heavy!). No smell that I can tell. I'll go back for the rest in the coming week or two, but most of it is lying in a rocky Drainage that is no fun running a MS271 in and there is quite a thicket of bramble to cut through. Here are two more close ups of the grain, if helpful. Again, thanks for the input. H.

 

[Jags]

The bark could also be Horse Chestnut, but the interior doesn't look right for that. Its got me stumped (no pun intended).

 

[Stinkpickle]

I feel better that it's not immediately obvious. I can see it *might* be cherry, but it really is a huge, perfectly straight trunk and the wood is very dense (and heavy!). No smell that I can tell. I'll go back for the rest in the coming week or two, but most of it is lying in a rocky Drainage that is no fun running a MS271 in and there is quite a thicket of bramble to cut through. Here are two more close ups of the grain, if helpful. Again, thanks for the input. H.

If you had only shown me those two pics along with that description, I would've said walnut without thinking about it.

 

[Wood Duck]

Those last two pictures look very much like Black Walnut. The bark in the first pictures doesn't look much like Black Walnut, but the dark wood does.

Either Black Walnut or Black Cherry can be tall and straight when they grow in the forest. There are plenty of tall, straight cherries around here.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

If you had only shown me those two pics along with that description, I would've said walnut without thinking about it.

Yes these look like Walnut hands down....but the first ones didn't?! Odd....