Help identifying these 4 different logs

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• Butterfly66 Posts: 970

  May 2020

  1 my guess would be silver birch as well

  2 Wrong colour for alder maybe cherry?
  3 Hornbeam?
  4 yes could be alder
  
  

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• Butterfly66 Posts: 970

  May 2020

  Hubby has just reminded me that alder logs are quite orange. He thinks they might be maple.

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• Buttercupdays Posts: 4,546

  May 2020

  I've just been for a walk round to look at my trees!  Finding bark as clean as that in your photos was not easy, mine is covered with algae, moss and lichen
  The concentric circle pattern, with fairly smooth bark is the most prevalent, and the matt grey-green in the third pic looks a good match for my alder. 
  Those logs are quite small, looking at the house bricks, and silver birches can produce the dark reddish colour, mainly on new growth. So I think pics 1 and 2 could both be birch. 
  

  The last one is the puzzle. The vertical bark pattern is less common and also is often more rugged and on the oldest wood, so would not appear on branches that size. The pattern on your log is also very regular and the closest match I could find was oak, though I don't think it was quite the same and the cross section view would bear that out, as the rings are relatively widely spaced.
  

  So a tree I don't have or not at that size.
  

  I looked at sycamore, ash, cherry, hawthorn, elder, goat willow, hornbeam and pine, but only have small Japanese maples so that may be a good call, @Butterfly66
  

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  May 2020

  I would say

  
  

  1 -silver birch

  2-cherry

  4-hornbeam
  

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• Nickhutton Posts: 3

  May 2020

  Butterfly66 said:

  Hubby has just reminded me that alder logs are quite orange. He thinks they might be maple.

  I should have also put that number 3 was bright orange all over the inner wood when it was cut winter just gone but as it dried it faded just to orange on the inner rings. Thankyou for your help I appreciate the input. 🙂
  
  
  

  Buttercupdays said:

  So I think pics 1 and 2 could both be birch. 
  

  The last one is the puzzle. The vertical bark pattern is less common and also is often more rugged and on the oldest wood, so would not appear on branches that size. The pattern on your log is also very regular and the closest match I could find was oak, though I don't think it was quite the same and the cross section view would bear that out, as the rings are relatively widely spaced.
  

  So a tree I don't have or not at that size.
  

  I looked at sycamore, ash, cherry, hawthorn, elder, goat willow, hornbeam and pine, but only have small Japanese maples so that may be a good call, @Butterfly66
  

  I think you are right 1 and 2 both birch and 2 is just more juvinile where the bark is more red brown like you say. You are right I think 3 is also alder because it was bright orange inside.
  
  And yes number 4 is puzzling me I have no clue. All these trees are young so the bark hadn't fully developed. I will have to keep looking for 4. Thanks though I appreciate it. 

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• Nickhutton Posts: 3

  May 2020

  To make it easier I went out and got leaves from some of the logs I'm trying to identify...
  
  This is number 3 which I think is alder..
  
  
  
  Number 4 I think is some sort of maple...
  
  

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