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Can I ask a dumb question?
OK one more, what's heartwood?
OK one more, what's heartwood?
Here is a picture of a piece of maple in my stack with bark like op picture and no dark heartwood. I will sand this piece of wood today at work and take more pictures. Im sure there are some misidentified trees in those links. My point was that you cant go by bark alone.
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Can I ask a dumb question?
OK one more, what's heartwood?
Brown heartwood in a red maple split, very distinctive. Not the best pic, but the only one I've got in photobucket.
Trying to determine tree species from bark alone can be very difficult.
It is not maple, it does not have the tell tale brown heartwood of maple.
I looked at your google search and saw at least one example of misidentified tree bark, is was an ash that someone thought was a black maple.
This is the site I use for tree ID, gives you pics of bark, flowers, fruit, twigs and other info.
http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/biglist_frame.cfm
Do i need to break out the magnifier to see the "rays"?
Jeffreywp1 are a lumberjack?
Yeah, there is some darkish area there, but look at how thick & gnarly the bark is....an inch thick some places it looks like.....don't know, but it seems like the maples shown & others i've seen don't grow that rough & thick of bark............not sure now?