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Eagleknight

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Not sure what these two are. I am thinking both are bitternut hickory.
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White walnut I think for the first one.
Smells just like hickory when cutting and burning it.

Beech I think for the second.
 
Bitternut normally has a bigger darker center than that one shows unless it is pretty small. Hard to give it scale from your pic. Here are 2 pics of bitternut from our area.

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Your second pic is definitely not bitternut. I'm not seeing it as Beech or hackberry either.
 
Bitternut normally has a bigger darker center than that one shows unless it is pretty small. Hard to give it scale from your pic. Here are 2 pics of bitternut from our area.

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Your second pic is definitely not bitternut. I'm not seeing it as Beech or hackberry either.

Bitternut Hickory nuts are very distictive and a LOT different than Mockernut. These were what the nuts looked like around the tree shown in my post. Mockernut has a rougher bark from what I have found.

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I am thinking both are Hackberry. First pic from the trunk, more mature. Second pic from a limb higher up.
 
If the wood really stinks, then it's Ohio Buckeye. And if it doesn't, then hackberry.
And I'm an OSU fan too, so don't go thinkin' otherwise! :happy: Yes, Ohio Buckeye has a REALLY bad stench....
 
In over 40 years of cutting I've never come across a hackberry tree with a dark center that big. The are all white around here. That and the cambium area doesn't have that much tan/brown showing. When you break the rough outer bark it is not that brown either. Here are a couple pics of hackberry from my burn pile.

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10 inch round

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12 inch dry rounds

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Dry round with bark cut with hatchet. Note the dull gray to white color.

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Close to 4 ft diameter hackberry, see the hatchet?

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Bark does not have the brown inclusions like his first pic. I scraped some fresh off and even it has more gray and white in it.

I have a couple buckeye trees here but can't say that I've ever cut any of it to verify. I n both of your pics that bark looks WAY too smooth to be like ANY hackberry I've ever cut.
 
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