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Title: Stump wood id.
Post by: Weekend_Sawyer on March 29, 2019, 05:20:16 PM

Same guy that gave me the ash.
He picked up this slice from a wood dump here in MD.

My first guess is maple.
What do you think?

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10233/IMG950039.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1553894178)

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10233/IMG950037.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1553894220)

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10233/IMG950037.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1553894220)

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10233/IMG_20190329_171805.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1553894287)

I scraped it with a knife. It had no odor.

Jon

Title: Re: Stump wood id.
Post by: KEC on March 29, 2019, 08:45:52 PM

Looks like Hackberry to me.

Title: Re: Stump wood id.
Post by: KEC on March 29, 2019, 08:47:56 PM

Looks like Hackberry.

Title: Re: Stump wood id.
Post by: Southside on March 29, 2019, 09:36:08 PM

Bark inclusions and no warts, big growth rings, soft maple.

Title: Re: Stump wood id.
Post by: WDH on March 29, 2019, 10:36:24 PM

Latewood pores arranged in wavy bands. Characteristic of the elm family. Hackberry is in the elm family. I am also in the Hackberry Camp.

Title: Re: Stump wood id.
Post by: Don P on March 29, 2019, 10:47:42 PM

That last pic had me thinking American elm, but the bark wasn't working for me.

Title: Re: Stump wood id.
Post by: LeeB on March 30, 2019, 11:00:14 PM

hackberry

Title: Re: Stump wood id.
Post by: Weekend_Sawyer on April 01, 2019, 06:58:17 AM

Thanks for the replies.

I'm going with hackberry!

Jon

Title: Re: Stump wood id.
Post by: SwampDonkey on April 01, 2019, 07:29:10 AM

I would have called elm since that is the only species up here with wavy grain. So hackberry seems equally possible I guess. ;D

Title: Re: Stump wood id.
Post by: Woodpecker52 on April 02, 2019, 02:09:01 PM

Looks like hackberry smooth grey bark and warts. Around here called sugarberry.

Title: Re: Stump wood id.
Post by: WDH on April 02, 2019, 08:25:11 PM

Hackberry and sugarberry are considered two separate species, although the differences are so minor that it takes an expert to tell them apart, then on top of that, I suspect that they hybridize. What distinguishes them apart is so minuscule that they are essential just variation within a single species in my opinion.

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