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Completely Stumped

Started by Ishvp1979, February 08, 2019, 09:46:35 AM

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Ishvp1979

This one has me completely stumped. I've shown it to a lot of people, who also don't know what it is. If it's not one thing it's another that's throwing people off. There is a sticky sap coming from under the bark.  

 

 

 

 

     

Ishvp1979

Two things I should add.  It's not an evergreen (it's leaves had shed) and it's harder than white oak.  Can't be scratched on the end fibers with my knife.  

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Ishvp1979

Mid/South Louisiana.  Deridder

WDH

Can you get a close up bark pic?
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mike_belben

Kinda resembles red maple with a lot more mineral than normal... or whatever youd call the stain streak.  
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hacknchop

I'm with Mike on this one have a lot of red mpl on our place we call them all soft mpl as opposed to hard mpl but that's what I  thought.  
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WDH

That is what I think that it is, too. 
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Ljohnsaw

I would just call it spectacular! 8)
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moodnacreek

I just cut sweet gum and that what it looks like to me.

WDH

Our sweetgum is more brown and red with blue and gray streaks. 
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Magicman

 

 


 
Sawed Sweetgum last week. 
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mike_belben

I think the wood in question is too straight grained to be a gum.  Note the feathers and flames in lynns second post where the grain spirals.
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WDH

I am confident that it is red maple. 
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Magicman

I am just as confident that it ain't Sweetgum. 
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two tired

Do you have a picture of  the bark or the  tree standing, was the tree a yard  tree 
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moodnacreek

The sweet gum I sawed was a first for Me. Very uncommon up here, in fact it came from N.J. However I sure have sawed red, silver, Norway and hard maple and never saw sticky sap. The sap on soft maple is like water.

mike_belben

Yeah and if you leave two or more sap filled boards stacked together with no air space for a few days youll actually start to smell the sugars in them ferment a little.  It smells like rotten fruit or cider starting to turn. Flies, gnats, ants and yellow jackets all over it. 
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trim4u2nv

Looks like chinese elm.  Splits very stringy?, breaks off branches in ice storms?

moodnacreek

Quote from: trim4u2nv on February 18, 2019, 07:27:39 PM
Looks like chinese elm.  Splits very stringy?, breaks off branches in ice storms?
Well, a non native species. Can't expect the average local to know about trees that don't belong. Dawn redwood is about the only one for me. 

EOTE

I would probably bank on the red maple versus sweetgum (redgum).  The bark in the photos looks similar to sweetgum but the wood grain in sweetgum seems more variable than what I see presented by Ishvp1979.   I thought about red elm but the bark and wood is completely different, plus it has a very distinct and really unpleasant odor when cut.

Here are some additional sweetgum photos of logs I have cut.  

 

 

 

Here is red elm...


 

 

 


Thoughts?
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