ID this branch? Please?

[Niels]

Found this branch beside a road and cut a spoon blank out of it.
The buds look like this:



The bark looks like this:



I just want to make sure it's not poisonous before I carve a spoon out of it so if someone knows what it is you'll have my gratitude.

 

[Mesquite]

The second picture looks like Lime but the picture of the buds look more like horse chestnut

 

[Jackdaw]

It looks like Horse Chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum. Apparently contains Esculin which is poisonous.

 

[Niels]

It's definately both from the same branch. If it's horse chestnut, I suppose I'll have to find some other use for it...
Thanks guys.

 

[HillBill]

Wouldn't worry about it Niels. Yew is highly toxic, but you can safely make utensils from it. Just don't eat the wood

 

[Myosotis]

Yup, Horse Chestnut.

 

[Robbi]

Could be Cherry i reckon.

 

[Niels]

I don't think a spoon made out of toxic wood is dangerous, because as HillBill says, I too have seen spoons made out of yew used by people that are still alive.
But better safe than sorry, so I'm gonna try and make it into a woodspirit now. So I don't risk poisoning myself.

 

[Harvestman]

The 'poisonous' thing can get silly. Apples contain cyanide in the seeds in the core, but no-one worries if they eat one by accident.

Looking forward to your woodspirit Niels. Can't be worse than my only attempt, which didn't get anywhere near being shown on the forum.