Wood ID?

[ThePennsylvanianWoodsman]

Its relatively light wood, and has a strong but nice/sweet smell mostly from the bark and the inside as well. Found in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

The bark is a dark grey, but when I peel it off the core, its kinda stringy and also a light/dark brown/purple color on the inside. On some of the wood, the bark has fissures and cracks, but is mostly thin and rough, not smooth.
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I dont think this wood is pine, cedar, ash, or oak, but I could very well be wrong. Anyone know what it might be?

 

[CincyBurner]

Populus ? - aspen
https://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=65

 

[wooddope]

Looks like popular to me also.

 

[Stinkpickle]

I’ve had some honey locust with bark like that...the pieces without thorns, that is.

 

[Qvist]

It looks like Aspen to me as well. Maybe Quaking or Big Tooth Aspen as Cincyburner says. I believe Aspens line the highways around Wilkesbarre and Scranton on the abandoned coal mine lands could be from a similar area?

 

[PA. Woodsman]

For some reason your user name sounds awfully familiar

 

[ThePennsylvanianWoodsman]

So I did some researching and digging around the site of that tree, turns out its an American Beech. Also, the bark is stringy from being frozen and wet. Thanks for the help everyone.

 

[CincyBurner]

?
American beech won't have stringy bark (even if frozen). Beech bark is thin, smooth, light and flakes off when dead.
Wood of beech is much denser.
Both will burn - beech much better.

 

[hickoryhoarder]

Big tooth aspen or honey locust are also my guesses.

Looks nothing like American beech to me, which I've split and burned a lot.

 

[lost in the woods]

aspen fo sho populus grandidentata

 

[PA. Woodsman]

So I did some researching and digging around the site of that tree, turns out its an American Beech. Also, the bark is stringy from being frozen and wet. Thanks for the help everyone.

If that's Beech then I'm Sidney Crosby.......Beech bark looks like Elephant skin, what you have there is a softer hardwood for sure.

 

[nrford]

Aspen 100%

 

[mark cline]

Beech is heavy , same for locust , looks like poplar .What does it smell like , poplar smells like piss

 

[Qvist]

Aspen bark changes form as it gets older the younger form does resemble Beach somewhat. This is Big tooth Aspen but quaking is similar.

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