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.
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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.
Location?
Mid/South Louisiana. Deridder
Can you get a close up bark pic?
Kinda resembles red maple with a lot more mineral than normal... or whatever youd call the stain streak.
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.
That is what I think that it is, too.
I would just call it spectacular! 8)
I just cut sweet gum and that what it looks like to me.
Our sweetgum is more brown and red with blue and gray streaks.
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Sawed Sweetgum last week.
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.
I am confident that it is red maple.
I am just as confident that it ain't Sweetgum.
Do you have a picture of the bark or the tree standing, was the tree a yard tree
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.
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.
Looks like chinese elm. Splits very stringy?, breaks off branches in ice storms?
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.
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 (http://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=44094). 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.
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Here is red elm...
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Thoughts?