tree/timber id help please

[se7enthdevil]

i'm usually the one helping out other people with this subject but i'll need someone else's help here.

 

 

this timber has come from Windsor great park possibly from someones garden.

 

there are no visible pores in the wood and its relatively weighty. i don't know if the wood is spalted but it doesn't look like any spalting I've seen and it's freshly felled and there is no spalting in the sap wood (usually the first to spalt) so i'm taking it that the wood usually looks like this. I've no foliage to go on.

 

please help...

[TTP]

Is it pop?

[se7enthdevil]

i considered this as a possibility but I've no experience with any species of the populus genus so cant answer my own question. i was hoping the bark might be recognizable to someone.

 

i must admit it looks very like a pop bark and considering the lack of visible pores it would be a conclusion id accept if someone can tell me that the heart wood can look like that because of fungal infection or soil conditions. the only pics I've seen of polar are all white...

[delabodge]

got a pic end of a log with bark on?

[nepia]

Walnut surely.

[se7enthdevil]

got a pic end of a log with bark on?

 

the first two pics do include the bark clive.

 

do you need a better photo?

 

i've only one bit left but i can clean it up so you can see a quarter of a log end...

[se7enthdevil]

Walnut surely.

 

walnut is porous isn't it??

[sloth]

Poplar is as good a guess as any. Is the dark coloured wood very wet and a bit pungent- typical of poplar if so. I think its the drying of this (bacterial?) wetwood that allows such rapid decay in topped poplars.

[kev7937]

I'd go for pop, I'm sure I've seen em colored like that, the end grain looks good to me too.

 

Is it stinky?

[se7enthdevil]

there is no particular aroma coming from the wood at all...

 

none of it is wetter than the rest it's just a bit of freshly felled wood.