What kind of wood (tree) is this?

[DaveO]

 

[FF/EMT516]

Looks to be birch.

 

[bigbonner]

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

 

[DaveO]

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

No sir!

 

[barney]

Cherry

 

[DaveO]

Cherry

That’s what I thought but I’m definitely not a tree expert. Just the traditional Oak,Maple,Hickory etc

 

[davers]

Birch tree

 

[NOCAMST]

Looks like a good ol junk cherry to me.

 

[mcbuck58]

Cherry

 

[Feedman]

Cherry

yep

 

[FF/EMT516]

I think y’all are right. Cherry tree now that I think about it, with that scaly bark. I’ve never seen a birch tree wild in ky. Smell it and if you smell cherry that’s your answer.

 

[timer]

The wood doesn't look dark enough to be cherry to me. The bark looks too scaly. I'm thinking birch.

I've seen lots of birch trees (that's what I've always called them) growing wild around the creeks in Russell county.

We seem to have an unlimited amount of wild cherry trees that continue to sprout in our fence rows in Mercer county. Most of you know that it only takes a handful of wilted wild cherry leaves to kill a cow. Green leaves won't hurt them and neither will dried leaves....but while they are wilted - deadly.

 

[Dark Cloud]

Looks can fool us I think ,might be a cherry ,but I’m really thinking ,water birch .

 

[bigbonner]

Picture of the tree trunk from the ground up 6 or 8 feet would help'
I have one behind my house and it seems darker than what is in the picture and doesn't seem to be as scalley.

 

[barney]

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?