Wood ID?

[stoveliker]

I had a wheelbarrow of this wood in my stacks this year. This is the last of it.
It has a purple hue.

Anybody any ideas for what this is? Small tree, obviously.

 

[stoveliker]

The inside makes me think of maple, but the color and bark do not.

 

[EbS-P]

I had a wheelbarrow of this wood in my stacks this year. This is the last of it.
It has a purple hue.

Anybody any ideas for what this is? Small tree, obviously.

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Dogwood??

 

[stoveliker]

I thought of that, but the dogwood I have burned was always quite light in color, without any hint of purple.

(Redbud?)

 

[Kwolt]

The bark immediately suggested hawthorn but I’ve never seen a purple hue.

 

[stoveliker]

That might be it, though!

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No mention of purple in the wood, but the leaves are purplish when young, they say.

 

[stoveliker]

No thorns on the wood though.

 

[EatenByLimestone]

How dense is it? Was it an ornamental? I’d have thought dogwood too, but if it came from a yard it could be something weird like a butterfly bush that was trimmed into a tree shape and fed massive amounts of fertilizer.

 

[stoveliker]

It feels like maple in density (when dry, now, I don't remember how it felt when wet). It split easily, which is a surprise for a small, ornamental yard tree that I think this was.

 

[whatyousmokin]

redbud maybe?

 

[Woody Stover]

It feels like maple in density (when dry, now, I don't remember how it felt when wet). It split easily, which is a surprise for a small, ornamental yard tree that I think this was.

redbud maybe?

I don't think so, Redbud is really heavy, and doesn't split real easy. Luckily it is many times small enough where I don't have to split it.

 

[Dix]

I have maple that looks like that.

It burns just fine

 

[stoveliker]

That is true. I had two fireboxes full of it, and it will contained quite some BTUs.

 

[Woody Stover]

Dogwood often has a pink/purple hue, but I've also seen some that looks white. I'm not seeing the "purple" in the posted pic.
The bark does look like Dogwood. Maybe the heft is close enough to hard Maple...

 

[EbS-P]

I thought of that, but the dogwood I have burned was always quite light in color, without any hint of purple.

(Redbud?)

I’ve seen it pink the dark stains more purple when wet.

 

[stoveliker]

Ok. Then maybe it's dogwood after all.

 

[gzecc]

Looks like DW to me.

 

[CincyBurner]

Definitely not redbud (heartwood and bark all wrong).
+1 for dogwood.

 

[Woody Stover]

Redbud is really heavy

Oops, meant Dogwood. Redbud is light/medium weight 'yaller wood.'

 

[Kwolt]

Could it be crabapple? Red-leaved varieties of crabapple will give you a pinkish or purplish hue when freshly cut or split and the bark would fit.

 

[wooddope]

My first thought was also apple by the bark. I don't reckon I've ever seen redbud before,

 

[EatenByLimestone]

Redbud is an understory tree up north that has become an ornamental down in the states.

 

[stoveliker]

Could it be crabapple? Red-leaved varieties of crabapple will give you a pinkish or purplish hue when freshly cut or split and the bark would fit.

Could be, based on images I found.

 

[Kwolt]

For reference- hawthorn, crabapple and redbud
Does it smell like apple when you burn it?

 

[stoveliker]

From those three it looks most like the crabapple. I can't smell it when it burns, though; what comes out of the chimney has gone thru the cat, and that changes smells considerably from "normal smoke".