Wood Duck said:All of the eastern red cedar I have cut has stringy reddish bark, whitish, wide sapwood, and a dark purple heartwood.
The smell is very distinct when freshly cut, but fades with age. If you split it again, I think you'll have a strong aroma if it is cedar.
Jags said:Do you have any hickory around your neck of the woods? It kinda looks like a smooth bark variety of hickory from the pics. Hickory will have a smell, although not really a "cedar" smell, and it does dry to a more brownish color than the original split. This isn't a positive ID, just throwing that one out at ya.
Could we get some additional pics. Do you have a clearer log to look at?
CountryBoy19 said:Jags said:Do you have any hickory around your neck of the woods? It kinda looks like a smooth bark variety of hickory from the pics. Hickory will have a smell, although not really a "cedar" smell, and it does dry to a more brownish color than the original split. This isn't a positive ID, just throwing that one out at ya.
Could we get some additional pics. Do you have a clearer log to look at?
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I'm going to say it's hickory.
Either a smooth bark species, or because of the furrows in the bark, it could be a young Shagbark hickory (before the bark actually starts to get shaggy).