Hey gents and ladies, can you tell me what this tree was? Is that spalting in the center?

My gut tells me it's pretty nice wood, and what a shame it got cut into those small pieces! Unless you are a bowl turner of course.

It free wood near me, thinking of picking up a few cookies.

cedar?  cypress?

Not a good enough picture as my plant app keeps saying "fungi". That is not spalt it is rotten at the center. Wrong bark for cedar. It just might be cherry as the bark matches but I have never seen one that large with so little sap wood .

@Gerald, is that lighter wood in the middle going to be spongy you think?

Color looks like Cherry.  The log below the guy with the blower is probably what it all should look like.

 

Right color for cherry but not a tree normally found in your area. Too bad there isn't a picture of the leaves.

Not the greatest photo, but looks like Boxelder to me.

19 minutes ago, lew said:

Right color for cherry but not a tree normally found in your area.

We have a plethora of trees Lew, not common indeed but they are spattered here and there, walnut, cherry, maple, euc, plenty of pines, pepper, cotton woods, but it's not too horribly uncommon to see a cherry or maple in our older neighborhoods.

Back in the day when the settlers were coming west, they brought with them seeds of the trees they grew up with, so we have some transplants all over CA.

3 hours ago, John Morris said:

We have a plethora of trees Lew, not common indeed but they are spattered here and there, walnut, cherry, maple, euc, plenty of pines, pepper, cotton woods, but it's not too horribly uncommon to see a cherry or maple in our older neighborhoods.

Back in the day when the settlers were coming west, they brought with them seeds of the trees they grew up with, so we have some transplants all over CA.

I wonder if you were to lick a stamp and stick it to the bark would the postal service deliver it to South West Georgia? Lol

Edited May 12, 20242 yr by User74
Wrong region.

5 hours ago, John Morris said:

@Gerald, is that lighter wood in the middle going to be spongy you think?

The only way to tell for sure is to probe it. However the logs are large enough that when ripped half is plenty to make a bowl.

When I was in high school, one summer I went to a state forestry camp.  We learned tree identification and a few other things.  One of the handouts was a small book on tree identification.  It was known as a dichotomous book.  Page one asked the question like, does this tree have needles (go to page 2) or leaves (go to page 34).   Then on page 34 it would ask a question like, are the leaves compound (go to page 35) or single (go to page 47).

 

While there are hundreds of tree species, this covered the most common ones and IIRC, it might get you to a group like "white oak", even though there are a dozen or more types of white oak.

This was posted on a hunting forum I belong to. Pic is from KY, it is a Boxelder. Not sure if or saying 100% it is the same as yours.

 

 

 

 

 

I’m thinking cedar.