HELP - TREE IDENIFICATION NEEDED - Pictures Attached

[TreeLogic]

Elm? Don't think so.

Tulip poplar, cottonwood, maybe even sweet gum or tupelo gum, which I've seen with darker heartwood sometimes. Tulip poplar always seems to have more yellow in the heart than brown, though. Definitely not American elm, Ulmus americana, which is what that table pic looks like. Cut down a big one of those and you know you've got something nice. And the only elms I've seen with bark like the pics are those crappy looking ones people buy by mistake, thinking they're getting parvifolia (Chinese elm). They don't grow anywhere near that big. Of course, different regions, different trees. No elms like that here though.

 

[qbilder]

Tulip poplar, cottonwood, maybe even sweet gum or tupelo gum, which I've seen with darker heartwood sometimes. Tulip poplar always seems to have more yellow in the heart than brown, though. Definitely not American elm, Ulmus americana, which is what that table pic looks like. Cut down a big one of those and you know you've got something nice. And the only elms I've seen with bark like the pics are those crappy looking ones people buy by mistake, thinking they're getting parvifolia (Chinese elm). They don't grow anywhere near that big. Of course, different regions, different trees. No elms like that here though.

The table is made of Chinese elm. They get MUCH bigger here than what I made the table from. Their bark is rough & deep furrowed like the pic. Around here, the only elm we have is "Chinese" which is called Siberian. And it looks exactly like what's in the pics. Growing next to a cottonwood, you can only tell the difference by small details in the bark, or by looking at the leaves.

A close pic of the end grain would say it all. No more guessing.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I find it VERY hard to identify a tree on the net, but it looks like cotton wood to me too.

I like cotton wood so i'd be willing to spend the day hauling it away, but i wouldn't pay any $ for it.

SR

 

[TreeLogic]

qbilder - Lots of elms aren't there? Anyway nice looking table dude. I'm impressed. It's funny how the common names of trees get thrown around like crazy. Look up Ironwood and you'll see what I mean. I have to agree with an earlier post, there's less confusion in using the Genus species. Here in Charleston, Chinese Elm refers to Ulmus parvifolia, which is also called Lacebark Elm, pretty much an ornamental with really cool looking mottled bark. We don't have Siberian elm here but from the pictures I've seen online, you're right, the bark looks pretty close to his original pics.

Here's a pic of a bench I made for Mom. The boards were cut from an American Elm (Ulmus americana) and when I got into the large trunk wood I couldn't believe how NEON RED it was. Once it dried out, it lost some of that red. Anyway, hope I didn't step on any toes and enjoy the pic.

 

[qbilder]

Nice bench! No toes stepped on here. I know all too well how many trees look a lot alike. We all have our own experiences.

 

[ft. churchill]

I cut up quite a bit of siberian elm this fall (which also is called chinese elm around here). None of it has the darker colored heartwood that your logs have. The wood is a uniform tan color with very little color change between sapwood and heartwood.

 

[TreeLogic]

For what it's worth, checked Wikipedia and it says that Siberian elm is mistakenly called Chinese elm all the time. Doesn't really look like they're saying it grows that big either. The American elm bark is shaggy on the older trees and looks more like pecan.

Is it possible that tree is Butternut, which has bark like that, and is in the Walnut family?

 

[excess650]

For what it's worth, checked Wikipedia and it says that Siberian elm is mistakenly called Chinese elm all the time. Doesn't really look like they're saying it grows that big either. The American elm bark is shaggy on the older trees and looks more like pecan.

Is it possible that tree is Butternut, which has bark like that, and is in the Walnut family?

It isn't butternut, and it doesn't look like my tulip poplars either.

 

[qbilder]

I cut up quite a bit of siberian elm this fall (which also is called chinese elm around here). None of it has the darker colored heartwood that your logs have. The wood is a uniform tan color with very little color change between sapwood and heartwood.

Yeah we have some like that, too. Tough to tell it from cottonwood sometimes until you get close enough to see the feathers in the grain. We also have some that is very dark chocolate/charcoal almost like walnut. All of it is called Siberian elm though there's drastic differences. The table I made came from an elm that was growing in the foothills, next to what used to be a pond. It had been lying on the ground probably for decades. Campers had been cutting away at it for firewood. I thought it was cottonwood until I cut a piece & seen the interlocked end grain, and color of course.

I cut one a few years ago that I would have sworn was walnut if I didn't see the leaves & the fact that it smelled like horse manure. They sprout like weeds & grow anywhere there's water. When out in the desert looking for new places to hunt, we always look for the line of elms. It's always a dead sign that water flows, at least at some point during the year.

 

[Woody912]

Looks like cottonwood to me, big chunky bark. But one way to find out if it's Chinese elm is to smell it, they call it piss elm for a reason it smells like piss when you cut it. Anyways, if it's Chinese elm or cottonwood it's not worth a trip like that. I wouldn't travel 1/2 a mile for it

looks like cotton wood from here and I think the log is going to be very knotty. Split a small chunk with an axe, if it splits and splinters, more likely cottonwood. Axe bounces off, elm