Tree ident please

[TreeAbility]

Any ideas on this, alternate leaves, dark staining in the wood, bloody dense and heavy for it's size. Small tree

[AJStrees]

is it Celtis of some sort?

 

 

[nepia]

A suggestion worth looking into perhaps - Ostrya, carpinifolia being the Hop Hornbeam.

[se7enthdevil]

i was thinking hophornbeam before i even got down the page just from looking at the wood.

 

 

[nepia]

I got one.  Whoop whoop!

 

Cheers Steve.

[Paul Cleaver]

nice heartwood

[jmx]

The leaves look a lot like Davidia involucrata

[Stere]

White mulberry

[daltontrees]

1 hour ago, Stere said:

White mulberry

That's the best guess so far. The flowers are still emerging and look like they will be in clumps like Mulberry. Hop hornbeam flowers are of the dangly catkin kind and Davidia flowersa re the 'handkerchiefs' that give it it's common name. Right shape of juvenile leaf for Morus alba. Rosales anyway.

[AJStrees]

Morus alba looks close so White Mulberry could be the one then. Interesting. Not seen one I don't think.