What tree?

[beenn]

Walking the dog on the weekend and come across this:

Carried one of the logs back and have split it ready to attempt a kuksa but would like to know what wood it is?

Thanks

 

[mountainm]

Close up of the leaves would be useful?

 

[beenn]

Close up of the leaves would be useful?

I will take one when im next up there, forgot about that!!
The tree is up the mountain by my aunt's house, not too sure when im there next but ill take a walk up
I could try and edit to see one of the ones on the ground but may be a blur

 

[Robbi]

could be Beech

 

[robin wood]

looks like beech from here

 

[dwardo]

Doesn seem to be any mast on the floor but it is pretty exposed, aye better pics needed.

 

[Retired Member southey]

or some good pics of the split log dude

 

[armie]

Doesn seem to be any mast on the floor but it is pretty exposed, aye better pics needed.

C'mon, haven't you seen CSI? Enhance... enhance... there it is!

or some good pics of the split log dude

Indeed. I once met someone who told us she couldn't recognize a tree to save her life... but she could identify all sorts of wood!

 

[blacktimberwolf]

Forget the tree, lets talk about the dog, he's a stunner.!

 

[malente]

From the red discolouration on the cut timber could it also be a big old ash?


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[Retired Member southey]

Definatly not ash matey, Leaves and Bark.

 

[mountainm]

Looks a bit hornbeamy to me, but then the wood is too orange...

 

[Rogelio L.]

wood could look like beech but bark and leaf arrangement don't: bark on trunk should be smoother and leaves should be arranged more horizontally, I think.

 

[locum76]

I'll pitch in with sycamore.

 

[mountainm]

I'll pitch in with sycamore.

I think the leaves are too small for that?

 

[locum76]

Oh yeah, the leaves are in the foreground of the second pic - I didn't notice. probably not sycamore then, more like beech.

 

[Frogo]

Looks like Alder.

 

[udamiano]

Alder? of some sort, I'm basing this on what i can see of the leaf and the cut wood colouring

 

[blacktimberwolf]

Frogo's suggestion of alder looks like a good bet............the dog though is definatly a grey sable german shepherd.

 

[robin wood]

I am gobsmacked, it is such a totally typical example of a beech tree one of our most common trees and we are all here discussing. Its out in the middle of a field on it's own, almost certainly planted, its growing on an exposed hillside so is probably growing pretty slow (never see an alder there) hornbeam uncommon in South wales and more fissured bark and trunk when old, sycamore very different old bark, leaves and wood colour. I guess it is 150 years old which fits with the end of the period when most beech trees were being planted, the smooth bark on branches and slightly rougher on old trunk all fit, the leaves are right, so is the colour of the cut branches. The form of the trunk is exactly typical. The only thing that is a bit bizarre is why it has been so drastically pruned for no obvious reason, during the growing season, and with nasty long pruning stubs too.