can anyone i.d this?

[se7enthdevil]

endgrain looks similar to cherry laurel, is this a prunus???

[s.varty]

Bark looks like sallow

[RobArb]

Is it a laburnum without the darker colouring of any heartwood?

[treesrus]

bark is similar to laburnum except lab is either greenish or orange (when dead), and the heart wood is always dark. my thoughts are rowan, but i might be wrong.

[se7enthdevil]

when i first spied it amongst the other wood in the pile i thought it may be laburnum but it ain't that.

 

it is as heavy as the cherry laurel i've been working with (hence my suspicions) and has a very similar end grain so wondered if its a prunus like portugese laurel or one of the other slightly obscure ones

[sloth]

Been some time since I pruned a sizable one, but could it a bay tree? That end grain is very distinctive and familiar...

 

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Edited April 9, 2014 by sloth

[treesrus]

bark not right for cherry laurel or bay, could be portugese laurel (laurus lusitanica).

[kev7937]

bark not right for cherry laurel or bay, could be portugese laurel (laurus lusitanica).

 

 

Not sure it looks right for Portuguese laurel either. (Prunus lusitanica)

[agrimog]

as a very rough guess..........its a bit of tree wood..........lol

[se7enthdevil]

sorry there is no more info but it was on a huge pile of timber that gets taken down at the crown estate and is basically a tree grave yard.

 

pity really as many should have been milled.

 

the only clues i can give are that this bit is only 5-7" diameter and very slow growing as it's about 70 years old and also it's as heavy as cherry laurel and is just as hard. the bark should be easy to identify if you know it (which sadly i don't) as it's quite unusual. there was no foliage left, just a couple of logs.