What kind of wood (tree) is this?

[mcbuck58]

The pictures could use another pixel or 2 for sure..

I'm going by the wood cross section color as much as I am the bark. Best I remember there wasn't much differentiation between heartwood and sapwood in a birch?

I agree with differentiation between heartwood and sapwood in a birch. Also cherry bark flakes and birch bark kind of rolls up or flakes in large patches.

 

[FF/EMT516]

It’s a morningwood

 

[DaveO]

It’s a morningwood

😂🤣😂

 

[EdLongshanks]

This is one of my favorite thread types. I find it interesting and educational to hear everyone’s knowledge. Mountain lion threads are pretty sweet though too. My guess is cherry. I didn’t think birch grew in Kentucky?

 

[aaronc]

Pics ain't great and the sun appears to be beaming right on it. I'll always default to the experts.

If it is cherry what a shame

 

[Stone Branch]

Looks like Kentucky Coffee bean tree to me.
Were there any bean pods around the tree?

Coffee tree was my first guess, sure looks like it to me. Male coffee trees look the same as female coffee trees but do not produce pods.

I have plenty of black birch on my property and some river birch, doesn't look like either.

Scales look too big to be black cherry.

G

 

[Deadbeat]

I don't think it is cherry, as above I think the scales are too large. I would put my 2 cents on some type of birch.

 

[Stone Branch]

G

 

[mcbuck58]

I thought an older mature coffeetree has an alligator look type bark. That tree’s bark looks more scaly. Birch bark larger thinner scales or kind of rolls up. Just thinking out loud.

 

[Stone Branch]

I thought an older mature coffeetree has an alligator look type bark. That tree’s bark looks more scaly. Birch bark larger thinner scales or kind of rolls up. Just thinking out loud.

Well, I can maybe influence you're out loud thinking, the above pictured tree with the saw is a 30-year-old female coffee tree. The below pictured tree is a 30-year-old male that I still need to process and get under a roof.

Bark description from Michigan Trees, "Thick, hard, dark gray, deeply fissured with scaley or sharp thorny ridges curling out at their edges". In contrast this is the description for blackgum bark, "Thick, dark gray to reddish brown, deeply furrowed into long, irregular blocky ridges or with short, blocky plates resembling alligator hide".

G

 

[mcbuck58]

Well, I can maybe influence you're out loud thinking, the above pictured tree with the saw is a 30-year-old female coffee tree. The below pictured tree is a 30-year-old male that I still need to process and get under a roof.

Bark description from Michigan Trees, "Thick, hard, dark gray, deeply fissured with scaley or sharp thorny ridges curling out at their edges". In contrast this is the description for blackgum bark, "Thick, dark gray to reddish brown, deeply furrowed into long, irregular blocky ridges or with short, blocky plates resembling alligator hide".

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After spending an hour looking at my two eastern tree guides, my v-tree app and google you have influenced my out loud thinking. I agree with coffeetree. Good job SB.

 

[FF/EMT516]

I still say it’s a morningwood

 

[Stone Branch]

I still say it’s a morningwood

If that's what morningwood looks like, you better get your tree checked out by a qualified forester.

G

 

[FF/EMT516]

If that's what morningwood looks like, you better get your tree checked out by a qualified forester.

G

On it ✔️

 

[aaronc]

Well, I can maybe influence you're out loud thinking, the above pictured tree with the saw is a 30-year-old female coffee tree. The below pictured tree is a 30-year-old male that I still need to process and get under a roof.

Bark description from Michigan Trees, "Thick, hard, dark gray, deeply fissured with scaley or sharp thorny ridges curling out at their edges". In contrast this is the description for blackgum bark, "Thick, dark gray to reddish brown, deeply furrowed into long, irregular blocky ridges or with short, blocky plates resembling alligator hide".

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Not real familiar with coffee tree's....do you do anything in particular with the lumber/wood?