Tree I.D please

[Paddytray]

My neighbour was discarding the remains of a tree from her garden . And I would like to know what it is so I can find a use for it . Be it mushroom growing or on the learner lathe or some other random fancy . So please if anyone could I.d it for me it would be great .

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[Robbi]

i'd hazard a guess at Cherry

 

[Ivan...]

Always difficult, however good the pics, but i too agree with pollarded wild cherry.

Ivan...

 

[dwardo]

I would guess at Prunus Padus rather than Avium but its hard to tell from shots.

 

[ozzy1977]

The bark on the first pic does look a bit like cherry but the second pic does through me off, also the leaves don't look like cherry to me.

 

[Paddytray]

Cheers guys .

it has tough sharp thorns if that helps sorry im useless I know even with apps to help with I.d

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[Robbi]

not Cherry with thorns like that ! although the bark is very similar.

 

[Macaroon]

I think this is Prunus Spinosa - the good old Blackthorn. They are very varied in appearance when pollarded/cut back, but the colour of the bark combined with the big thorns?

 

[ozzy1977]

The leaves are very un prunus looking through

 

[chimpy leon]

Leaves too large to be a spinosa. I would say a Prunus though, possibly a domestica var. (bullace or damson).

 

[Hog On Ice]

does the leaf have the two glands at the base that is typical of a prunus?

 

[daveO]

Looks like a plum tree to me

 

[Robbi]

Looks like a plum tree to me

i thought that with the leaf shape but i've never seen spikes like that on a plum, could it be a big sloe tree ?

 

[daveO]

The plum trees we have here are pretty spikey. Trust me I get the job of pruning them

 

[Paddytray]

A few more pictures . Does anyone also know of a link to a thread on cutting and storing the wood for knife scales in particular ?.

 

[Hog On Ice]

could it be a pear tree (Pyrus spp)? I know some pear trees have thorns like that shown above and I am not seeing the glands at the base of the leaf so prunus is less likely

 

[Imagedude]

Looks like the plum/damson trees in my garden.

 

[Hog On Ice]

here is a pic of a damson leaf showing the glands at the base of the leaf that I am looking for:

 

[xylaria]

It might be purging buckthorn. Rhamnus cathartica. The bark was used as drastic purgative, it has been replaced by pictolax, the wood is hartshorn, is really hard.

 

[dwardo]

A few more pictures . Does anyone also know of a link to a thread on cutting and storing the wood for knife scales in particular ?.
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Either way its going to be nice wood
Grab some pva glue and seal up the exposed ends quickly or it will start to split. I would cut it into more manageable rounds if you intend to use it for knife scales etc.
Basic principal is the thinner and more exposed the wood the quick it will dry, but the sting in the tale is the quicker it dries the more change it has of splitting and warping.

If you are wanting to carve spoons and things then green is best so get it down to size and start working straight away.