Help with wood ID

[BlueLude2001]

I think I have an idea just wanted options. Neighbors tree was covered in ivy and choked out. Southern Ohio/Cincinnati area. What do you guys say?

 

[Twindad]

Black locust

 

[Greenthorn]

I love these ID threads............sometimes like "Name that tune!"

Could you play another note? j/k

I'm gonna go with ash, poplar or hickory.
But, it looks nothing like the black locust I cut here.

 

[BlueLude2001]

Hmm. I was thinking Ash. And the possibility of suffering from ash borer bug. The tree has the same squiggly marks like this link and the bark falls right off. http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/trees/ash/ash-tree-shedding-bark.htm

 

[Raintree]

Butternut.

 

[ATH]

Oak. You can clearly see the ray flecks in the picture of the split surface. Probably black oak based on the bark.

 

[Jed1124]

Oak. You can clearly see the ray flecks in the picture of the split surface. Probably black oak based on the bark.

I'm going to say black oak as well. That's a awful lot of borer gallery activity. Certainly not the typical s shape that you wood see from eab. Ath, are you familiar with a borer that wood affect a black oak like in the pictures? Looks like it could have led to the trees demise.

 

[ATH]

Quite possibly 2-lined chestnut borer. A close cousin of Emerald Ash Borer...they are both Agrilus

 

[ATH]

PS: Two-lined Chestnut borer is a secondary pest attacking trees already in decline (or often newly planted (stressed) oak trees).

 

[Greenthorn]

See... that's what great about these threads, no one knows and I don't know. I do not think that looks like eab disease, I see that same bug trailing in a lot of my trees from ash to maple to oak. I admit we have no black oak here, so I wouldn't know to compare to. I will still stick with my "assumption...." it is ash or hickory. Leaning on Pignut Hickory more than anything....was there any nuts on the ground? Pictures on the internet are so subjective... we can only assume or make assumptions, but I personally would not know unless I was familiar with your habitat, saw and held the wood in my hands.

 

[BlueLude2001]

There were no nuts on the ground. Anything above 6 foot was covered in ivy.


ATH thanks for that info. I had no idea.

 

[Raintree]

The pith is not right to be an Oak.

 

[buzz sawyer]

Based on the bark and the loss of bark, I'm leaning towards an elm - maybe September or Slippery. When it's that punky, it can split easily and cleanly.

 

[Raintree]

Beetle galleries are not Elm bark beetle.

 

[ropensaddle]

looks like hickory last picture pignut hickory my guess

 

[jefflovstrom]

looks like hickory last picture pignut hickory my guess

Where ya been?,,,,
Jeff

 

[moondoggie]

Another vote for hickory. See the diamonds on the grayish bark

 

[tomtrees58]

look like English walnut

 

[moondoggie]

hickory logs

 

[Marine5068]

Hickory