Can anyone identify this wood?

My wild guess is it could be Apple. It bark looks like Apple also.

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Dick, that might be a good guess, what with the quick oxidation, just like apple slices do. I scanned in some leaves that I collected while removing the bark. Maybe it can confirm your guess.

-- DataDoc, North Carolina, www.craigscrafts.com

Looks like your state flower to me by looking at the leaf. That would make it a Flowering Dogwood.
Is it pinkish on the inside?

That’s a great fine grained wood. It can be used as a subsitute for boxwood. It turns really great also.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

I walked outside and compared it to our dogwood, and its leaves are narrower and longer and a different attachment. Thanks anyway.

I do have some dogwood, from a tree owned by a former member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, and that wood is pink. I carved a spoon for my wife’s birthday and it colors like olivewood from use.

Here’s my final scan of a piece of bark.

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I guess our Dogwoods here in Texas are more broad leaved.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

There are actually 15 different varieties of dogwood that are native to north america and more than 40 worldwide (many of those can be found in N. America as well; they just aren’t native).

I don’t have my hand on my tree identification book right now; I’ll see if I can check it tonight and come up wtih something for you.

Off-hand, though, the heartwood doesn’t look like the flowering dogwood I’ve trimmed so many times in my parents’ yard – it is a wonderful nutty brown color. (And unfortunately, dogwood is subject to a lot of internal stressing and you will rarely see a good piece of it without some sort of checking.) I don’t think the dogwood has serrated leaf edges, and I recall the bark being more smooth, too…

Your images are quite good, though, so it shouldn’t take long to pinpoint. I’ll get back with you.

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Osage Orange.

I’m just guessing though.

-- Nicky

Eh… unbeknownst to myself, I must have been smoking crack earlier. I was totally thinking of the redbud in my front yard when I was talking about dogwood. Redbud has rich brown heartwood.

The leaf of the apple tree has very distinct alternating veins and these are very bi-lateral.

Bhah… I couldn’t find anything in my N. American field guide that looked like those leaves…

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Could be redbud but the fruit looks wrong. Are the leaves alternating or opposite each other on the branch? Tough to tell in some spots on that twig. It does look like a dogwood of some kind.

http://www.oplin.lib.oh.us/tree/leaf/leaf%20pages/074a%20not%20lobed%20shorter/shorter.html

I don’t know though something looks wrong.

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I’ve never seen a box elder tree, but the picture that you showed of the wood reminds me of that . Who just turned the Box elder bowel maybe they can identify the bark.

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Box elder looks similar to a Maple leaf.

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I think you may be right about it being blackgum.
http://www.oplin.lib.oh.us/tree/fact%20pages/blackgum/blackgum.html

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

Not dogwood. Dogwood leaves have leaf veins that run parallel to the leaf edges, and if you carefully break a green leaf, there are little spider webby looking white fibers that allow the broken section to dangle from the main section. Great magic trick for small children, ooh floating leaf ends (thanks Euell Gibbons, wherever you are).
Not blackgum, as they have smooth margins, these appear to serrated.

I am guessing it’s a crabapple.

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They have a really good plant database over at davesgarden.com… they should have it.

-- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah

If you look at the full-sized picture of the leaves you can see most of them are rounded rather than pointed. I think crabapple is too pointy. Thanks for the guess.

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Is the wood light or heavy? Several taxonomy keys on-line pointed to Basswood.

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Well, it ain’t sagebrush or juniper

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

It’s very heavy, I could barely pick up the largest piece to put in the back of my car. I hand trucked them once I got home and used a chainsaw to cut the largest piece (1st photo above, on the right side) in half so I could manage them once I got home.

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Looks like pear to me.

Jimmy

-- Jimmy

RobS has used plenty of Osage – very heavy – could easily confirm or deny that guess… whaddaya think there robbo?

I stumbled across a tree ID site recently that is based on leaves and flowers… let me take a look if I can stumble across that again, perhaps it was a LJ who posted it? Ring a bell anyone?

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The id guide over at arborday foundation said its a flowering dogwood… this was a quick sketch based search. I’ve seen a similar site using actual pictures that was much more advanced. Can’t seem to find it though… I’ll keep looking – It was a great resource!

http://www.arborday.org/trees/treeID.cfm?TrackingId=154

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My vote is for the dogwood family.

Cut a piece along it’s length, and if it is pinkish on the inside then it’s a Dogwood.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

I know this is an old topic, but it is not osage orange, can tell by the bark and leaves.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX