Honey locust?

[spudulike]

If that was a Honey Locust, it would have loads of 5cm+ spikes sticking out of the trunk and branches. I had one in my back garden and trod on one of those spikes...bloody painful!

[AJStrees]

2 hours ago, openspaceman said:

Willow killed by honey fungus then?

Good call. Well that’s that then. Off to the pub! 

[Mick Dempsey]

Dammit!

 

Anyway those leaves look like Norway Maple.

[Rich Rule]

The one way to confirm sweet chestnut timber is to smell it.

 

It smells like ‘Tangy Tom’s’ or very cheap tomato sauce flavoured crisps.

 

Unmistakable.

[roys]

1 hour ago, Rich Rule said:

The one way to confirm sweet chestnut timber is to smell it.

 

It smells like ‘Tangy Tom’s’ or very cheap tomato sauce flavoured crisps.

 

Unmistakable.

Like that^^^^

The smell reminds me of cigar boxes from my childhood.

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, Rich Rule said:

The one way to confirm sweet chestnut timber is to smell it.

 

 

Smell is  a good confirmation either way because both are distinctive. If you look at the knot in the bottom log of the second photo you will see the heartwood is very small but there is a broad band of sapwood and few very wide ings. Sweet chestnut is mostly heartwood often with only one sapwood ring.

[goblinlogail]

Thanks everyone for your plentiful replies, I've returned to the "scene of the crime", and taken a couple more pictures. It definitely has a fragrance to it, and I too thought it may be Norwegian Pine going by the leaves in the Streetview picture from 2009.

 

I've actually learnt a lot from your combined wisdom, i.e. Honey fungus which is probably what caused my willows to be felled - from reading RHS advice it sounds like I'd be wise to get rid of the remaining stumps so not to spread elsewhere? I certainly had the white mushrooms growing at the stump in the Autumn, and the heartwood of the willow was spongy or punky as Americans call it.

[5thelement]

1 hour ago, goblinlogail said:

Thanks everyone for your plentiful replies, I've returned to the "scene of the crime", and taken a couple more pictures. It definitely has a fragrance to it, and I too thought it may be Norwegian Pine going by the leaves in the Streetview picture from 2009.

 

I've actually learnt a lot from your combined wisdom, i.e. Honey fungus which is probably what caused my willows to be felled - from reading RHS advice it sounds like I'd be wise to get rid of the remaining stumps so not to spread elsewhere? I certainly had the white mushrooms growing at the stump in the Autumn, and the heartwood of the willow was spongy or punky as Americans call it.

Sweet chestnut all day long. 👍

[openspaceman]

5 hours ago, 5thelement said:

Sweet chestnut all day long. 👍

Yes that is sweet chestnut especially with the ring shake in the stump