Guess the wood...

[British Red]

In the endless game of guess the fire wood kindly provided by local tree surgeons, this turned up today

Firewood by English Countrylife, on Flickr

It has very dark brown, smooth bark and a finely grained almost white wood

Firewood by English Countrylife, on Flickr


I do know what this one is, but I've never handled it before so I wondered if anyone would care to "name that wood"

 

[Wildgoose]

Holly?

 

[British Red]

Great guess but no, the bark on this is even darker. I imagine without the bark it would be very similar looking

 

[Kadushu]

The bit on top looks like beech but the bark of the one under it looks like hawthorn. On balance... I don't know.

 

[British Red]

It's the top one that I was referring to . Not beech though.

 

[Robbi]

Looks familiar but....

Maple.?

 

[slowworm]

I'd go for one of the maples as well, looks similar to the silver leaf maple I've cut.

 

[SaraR]

In the endless game of guess the fire wood kindly provided by local tree surgeons, this turned up today

Firewood by English Countrylife, on Flickr

It has very dark brown, smooth bark and a finely grained almost white wood

Firewood by English Countrylife, on Flickr


I do know what this one is, but I've never handled it before so I wondered if anyone would care to "name that wood"

What does it smell like? (honestly a great way to identify some types of wood)

 

[Broch]

It does look a lot like sycamore but, as you say you've not handled it before, I assume it must be more exotic than that

 

[Toddy]

It looks like London plane.

Photos are always hard, subjective kind of thing. We all recognise different things about timbers.

 

[bobnewboy]

I’d have said sycamore, or perhaps field maple from the pics. The fairly smooth dark bark and white wood without any obvious heartwood for the size of the rounds would have otherwise indicated beech, but you’ve already ruled that out. Tricky…

 

[spandit]

It looks like London plane.

If it's an absolute ******* to split then you might be right. I was given a load once and my splitting axe just bounced off it. Even challenged a builder to try and he failed too.

That said, it does look more like sycamore to me.

 

[punkrockcaveman]

First guess would be sycamore. Or a close relative, Norway maple perhaps?

 

[Seagull]

I go for Oriental Plane....patchy, smoothish bark...arrrgh, but its patches don't look pink.

 

[Kadushu]

Does it smell like bay?

 

[Nice65]

First guess would be sycamore. Or a close relative, Norway maple perhaps?

Sycamore. Burns ok too. You’re lucky to have mixed woods, all we have is Ash.

 

[PoppyD]

Sycamore.

 

[Robbi]

What's the tree that drops sticky stuff all over your car and has small green Berry like seeds.?

 

[Toddy]

Lime.

 

[Tengu]

Could be a Holly with untypically dark bark?

Everything else points to holly