what type of wood is this

[airrat]

Helping the neighbors cut down a tree, and I am not sure what type of wood it is. Is it Ironwood?

The wood seems to be very heavy. The leaves are long thin leaves with yellow flowers. I dont have any pictures of the leaves.

 

[jleiwig]

Looks like it to me.

 

[jimbob91577]

Hum...

Did it have leaves like this?
http://www.pima.gov/cmo/sdcp/species/iw/illus.html

 

[airrat]

No Jim not like the pictures in that link. No thorns on it either. It has little yellow flowers on it too.

 

[USAFVET98]

Maybe Walnut?

 

[Displaced Canadian]

Give it a few days and see if the heartwood turns green.

 

[Seer]

Maybe Jacaranda?

 

[jclark58]

Not Desert Ironwood. Desert Ironwood has purple flowers. It's probably one of the Acacias, possibly Shoestring Acacia. Can you post a picture of the bark?

Jason

 

[workinforwood]

Sure looks like future pen wood to me.

 

[ZanderPommo]

Sure looks like future pen wood to me.

thats exactly my first thought.
heavy means dense, so probably good to turn, and the color looks great
......i just dunno what it is...

 

[jimbob91577]

The wood looks an awful lot like Walnut, but without seeing the bark or the leaves, or smelling it, I can't begin to tell you.

The other thing I was thinking it might be, at least in your neck of the woods, was hickory or misquite. However, small yellow flowers eliminates: Pecan, Hickory, Misquite, and Walnut.

What about this: http://www.delange.org/AcaciaShoestring/AcaciaShoestring.htm
JClark wins if this is correct.

 

[PTownSubbie]

Follow this website to determine the tree species. You can do it by several different means.....

http://www.oplin.org/tree/

Hope this link helped.

 

[darkness]

what wood

Is it laburum

 

[stolicky]

mesquite?

 

[areaman]

could be Linden, not sure of the spelling on this, but I know they have yellow flowers.

 

[robutacion]

Well, according to your description (leafs, flowers), I would suggest the Blackwood, which is an Acacia. Black Wattle is a relative, and some people tent to get them confused but, indeed they are 2 different species.

When you're dealing with species like Acacias, with varieties reaching nearly the 1,300 all around the world, the same one tree species will look sightly different depending on where it is growing, add that to the number of varieties and you will go mad trying to identify them correctly!:redface:

PS: some pics of Australian Black Wattle

Cheers
George

 

[Fred]

It would definitely help in the identification process IF you could post pictures of the bark, leaves, and the flower. A clear and close-up picture of the end of the log will also be of great help.

You just can't have enough information on identifying some of these species ...

 

[airrat]

I think it is the shoestring Acacia. Sorry didnt get the pictures of the bark on earlier. here is the bark and a little branch of leaves.


I don't have the room to keep this. If anyone in the area is interested please let me know.

 

[artme]

Most defiantly :biggrin: an Acaia.

Very similar to many that are native to Australia, where the vast majority of these species in the world reside as natives.

 

[Fred]

I can't ID it as it is like nothing here in GA that I am familiar with.

I bet you one of your city engineers may recognize it since they deal with local tree removal.

Also, if the wood is as interesting as it looks like it can be, then the root ball might hold another source of very interesting character (treasures)...

 

[jclark58]

I picked up these logs from Tom yesterday as he indicated that he doesn't have the time to turn them or room to store them. 5 sections about 2 1/2-3' long and 8-12" diameter. They will be put to good use.

Thanks Tom.

Jason