Tree ID, Maple

[JimBear]

I am thinking Maple but I have been wrong before. I have just never seen beatles/borers work on Maple like this, the wood is solid.

 

[MissMac]

I am thinking Maple but I have been wrong before. I have just never seen beatles/borers work on Maple like this, the wood is solid.

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I see an oak leaf, and aspen leaf and a maple leaf in that one pic. The bark of the tree looks like maple to me.

Edit: I have a red maple in my yard with identical looking bore holes.

 

[Simonkenton]

Yes, an interesting display of the various leaves of the forest.

It looks like ash to me.

 

[wooddope]

I say bradford pear.

 

[CincyBurner]

linden - https://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=89

Branching habit is alternate, so you know you can rule out maple . . . and ash
The buds are the clincher- big and fat ("buds are stout, ovate-acute, smooth, deep red, with two bud scales visible").

The wood is soft and very light in density, and desired for wood carving.
While not a definite ID it is frequently hit by sapsucker woodpeckers (note horizontal peck holes in pics 1,4 &5) of op.

 

[JimBear]

linden - https://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=89

Branching habit is alternate, so you know you can rule out maple . . . and ash
The buds are the clincher- big and fat ("buds are stout, ovate-acute, smooth, deep red, with two bud scales visible").

The wood is soft and very light in density, and desired for wood carving.
While not a definite ID it is frequently hit by sapsucker woodpeckers (note horizontal peck holes in pics 1,4 &5) of op.

It’s a bit out of its range in SW IA but everything is a match. THANKS.

 

[Stinkpickle]

It’s a bit out of its range in SW IA but everything is a match. THANKS.

Lindens are usually called Basswood here in Iowa.

 

[Simonkenton]

How can you tell that branching is alternate? I can't see any branches.

 

[CincyBurner]

How can you tell that branching is alternate?

Look in the middle of pic 3 - the small branches/ twigs have alternate branching habit.

 

[hickoryhoarder]

I'm also thinking basswood/linden.

Does not look like any maple I know, even if it had opposite branching.

 

[magna85]

+ 1 on basswood. I have a fair amount of it on my property and it all looks just like that with the horizontal rows of woodpecker holes. I don't go out of my way to harvest it but i did have a bunch growing too close to the house/driveway that i took out and processed over the last few years. Most of it is water weight - when it drys out it will be super light. Makes great starter wood or to mix in with dense hard wood like oak. Splits super easy too.

 

[BigJ273]

It’s not maple

 

[BigJ273]

It does resemble some pear I got last year

 

[mark cline]

Basswood the holes are from a yellow bellied sap sucker