Just split help - pine? Maple? Hickory?

[frased]

Just split one of these rounds open... trying to figure out what wood species this is please help?

 

[Jags]

Everything screams maple - except for the quite large dark center. I have seen maples with a dark center but not usually that big. The only thing I know of that does is walnut. That said - I still think its maple.

 

[ValleyCottageSplitter]

Looks kind of like Norway Maple, it has dark heartwood/ white sapwood like that, though bark doesn't look correct.
Norway has tight x pattern bark typically...

Any notable smell? Maple is a sweet fruity sugarcane smell, hickory sweet nutty with a barnyard smell, pine...smells like pine.

 

[gzecc]

Silver maple

 

[frased]

Looks kind of like Norway Maple, it has dark heartwood/ white sapwood like that, though bark doesn't look correct.
Norway has tight x pattern bark typically...

Any notable smell? Maple is a sweet fruity sugarcane smell, hickory sweet nutty with a barnyard smell, pine...smells like pine.

So I did the smell test DEFINITELY a sweet fruity sugarcane smell... honestly we think it even smells like apples! Smells incredible.

Still considered a silver maple or is it sugar maple?

 

[mtarbert]

So I did the smell test DEFINITELY a sweet fruity sugarcane smell... honestly we think it even smells like apples! Smells incredible.

Still considered a silver maple or is it sugar maple?

Then is Sure Ain't Silver Maple.....

 

[EatenByLimestone]

I'd also say maple. Which species, not sure without a bud picture. Positive id can always be made through the buds. Does not look like Norway maple bark to me, which always reminds me of ash.

 

[Kevin Weis]

My vote is for Red Maple. Red Maple does have a darker center like that and about that size in larger trees. That fits the bill. Kevin

 

[Eureka]

Red maple

 

[ValleyCottageSplitter]

Then is Sure Ain't Silver Maple.....

What does silver maple smell like?

Red and norway smell the same to me. Typically I think red maple has darker/reddish sapwood and lighter heartwood. Red is always pretty common a lot of the US so never a bad guess.

Anyone familiar with any other maples? Black or box elder if not silver?

 

[fbelec]

bark looks like the silver maples here. it not box elder wood doesn't look like that. and pine does a better job at burning than box elder

 

[Modenacart]

The red maple I just split was white all the way through.


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[frased]

Safe to say it’s maple.

What species is still debatable it seems.

Definitely that strong sugarcane smell though like fresh cut apples

 

[SeanBB]

Everything screams maple - except for the quite large dark center. I have seen maples with a dark center but not usually that big. The only thing I know of that does is walnut. That said - I still think its maple.

Laburnums have a dark center but the bark doesn't look right.

See: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=l...7enp7aAhXEI1AKHYAEAGwQsAQIJg&biw=1260&bih=514

 

[Jags]

Yeah, I am pretty sure it is some flavor of maple. I’ll bet that would have made some amazingly ornate lumber.