What is this wood?

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British Red

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I was bucking up a load of tree trunks today including a big stack of coniferous logs one of the local tree surgeons left us. Some of those had really vivid pink heartwood. I'm not entirely certain what it is but suspect it might be red cedar? Pretty regardless

Pink Heartwood by English Countrylife, on Flickr
 

Kadushu

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I had some like that from a conifer I cut down. It was tough green and very hard once dried. No idea of the species though.
 
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Toddy

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Looks like damp Douglas Fir.
It has a pink heartwood, that when sodden wet looks more red.

That said, western red cedar is also red in the core, but usually that's all of the core, rather than tapering out.
 

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dwardo

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Would have to dig back but looks like the stuff the Bowyer guys used to post from the states. They called it ERC or eastern red cedar. Could be dreaming it all up mind.
 

Robson Valley

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I have been carving western red cedar from both the coastal and inland forests here for more than 20 years. Thuja plicata.
It is never red. Maybe a pale pink which oxidizes to a dirty pale brown over night.
I see a lot of that deep color, variable in its placement, in aromatic cedar logs of our genus Juniperus. Stunning cabinet work.
 

Toddy

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We had some red cedar at one of the sites I worked on (they felled it nearby, so we were pretty sure of it) and it was red inside....like pink cooked meat. We wondered a bit looking at it, because our Alder bleeds red and G. was insistent that it was alder, but it wasn't, it was red but it didn't bleed.
Nice timber though. They made a table, a huge display shelf come reception thing, and used bits for looms and boats from it.
 

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