What kind of wood is this?

[Tfapps]

This is my second year with my stove so I'm still a novice, but I just split about a cord of this stuff and was wondering if anyone knew what it is? It has an orange-ish color to it.

 

[Lakeside]

Let's see if my wood id skills are any good , could it be Cherry ?

What says the wood pros ?

 

[WellSeasoned]

Looks like cherry to me

 

[Thistle]

Looks like Black Cherry.How's the smell? Is it kinda like cough syrup,but pleasant?

 

[JOHN BOY]

Yep looks like black cherry..

 

[red oak]

Another vote for black cherry. Smells good, dries fast, and burns great.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

I think it's Bradford Pear....twisted grain and lighter color grain than Cherry to my eyes and we have a lot of both species round here.

 

[Boog]

I wasn't quite sold on the cherry, the bark doesn't seem "scaled" enough like our native black cherries around here. But I could not think of a valid alternative either? And the ones I'm familiar with are not "orangish", more reddish.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

But I could not think of a valid alternative either?

Don't you guys have any Bradford Pear out there? I'm very certain that's what this is-burn a lot of it here in East PA. and it's good stuff....

 

[Boog]

My tree ID book doesn't have it and the only photos I could find online over the last few minutes didn't convince me either. The photos that were there seemed lighter in color with wider splits in the bark

 

[PA. Woodsman]

My tree ID book doesn't have it and the only photos I could find online over the last few minutes didn't convince me either. The photos that were there seemed lighter in color with wider splits in the bark

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Nah, that doesn't look like the Pear here in Eastern PA. What we have is just like the original picture, especially down in the middle of the stack. I'd be shocked if it wasn't Bradford Pear; still waiting for the other PA. guys to join in here but they must've gone to bed early lol!

 

[Boog]

Ok here are a variety of "classic" black cherry photos at various stages of growth.



I still am not sure. If it is, its from a very young tree that has not developed the scale appearance yet, or on a big tree, from the upper branches. The piece on the top of the pile in his photo does look redder, not orange, and the bark is beginning to approximate this.

 

[chuckie5fingers]

I say cherry as well. Goes great in the smoker as well. I just the thanksgiving turkey with cherry and mulberry...yum yum
enjoy
chuck

 

[Wood Duck]

The photo doesn't show enough to make me sure that I am seeing, but I think it looks more like Bradford Pear than Cherry. Cherry usually shows a sapwood that is lighter in color than the orange heartwood.. Pear doesn't have sapwood that is different from the heartwood, or at least not much different.

 

[Tfapps]

Thank for all the replies. I didn't notice any apparent smell. The cut ends have a darker orange color but the splits are lighter. I haven't came across anything with this color but I figured someone here would definitely know.

 

[Boog]

Thank for all the replies. I didn't notice any apparent smell. The cut ends have a darker orange color but the splits are lighter. I haven't came across anything with this color but I figured someone here would definitely know.

How big in diameter was the tree/trees that you cut. Is their any section of bark that looks like the "classic" cherry photos above, with the "upturned" scales of bark. If so, can you take a better photo of it for us? Thanks Tfapps! A branch tip showing the branching pattern, and young bark is also a good key identifier for many trees, as well as leaves, flowers, etc.

 

[nrford]

Nope, it is not cherry! Looks like Hard Maple or this Bradford pear that I have never seen here.

 

[Boog]

Nope, it is not cherry! Looks like Hard Maple or this Bradford pear that I have never seen here.

Funny you say maple, because I did come accross pictures in my tree ID book that looked really close to this, it was Red Maple.

Online Description of Bark:

The mature bark of Red Maple displays great variation in the wild. In terms of texture, it may be lightly fissured, platy, or shaggy, with the color of its outer plates composed of gray, silver, brown, and black shades. Its inner bark may be tinted with orange hues. Many of the landscape cultivars of Red Maple have smooth, silvery-gray trunks, but wild forms often have darker and rougher barks



Possible............ bark can be so variable, I want to see a branch tip!

 

[nrford]

Funny you say maple, because I did come accross pictures in my tree ID book that looked really close to this, it was Red Maple.

Online Description of Bark:

The mature bark of Red Maple displays great variation in the wild. In terms of texture, it may be lightly fissured, platy, or shaggy, with the color of its outer plates composed of gray, silver, brown, and black shades. Its inner bark may be tinted with orange hues. Many of the landscape cultivars of Red Maple have smooth, silvery-gray trunks, but wild forms often have darker and rougher barks

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Possible............ bark can be so variable, I want to see a branch tip!

It's not soft maple for sure!