Thread: Please help to ID this timber

Jomat, here's my honest if not very helpful answer. Identifying wood from a pic is a hit or miss game at the best of times but identifying a dried billet like that is next to impossible. The scaly bark eliminates a few hundred species, but without some size reference in the pic, I'm only guessing at the scale size, so we are still left with a couple hundred species. Knowing if it was collected in the bush or from a suburban backyard might help a little, too. The fact that it has dried in the round with very little splitting suggests it isn't a Eucalypt, and perhaps an ornamental or fruit tree, but that's as far as I can go.

If you were to split one of the billets, or saw a section off & show us a nice sharp pic of planed surface (& better still, a macro shot of clean end-grain) we might get the choices down a bit....

Cheers,

its old n scaly too...any pics of cut section so we can see the grain..?

Thanks for the quick reply IanW and reeves!

Here is a pic of a cut section of the timber. Sorry images are not the greatest (am using a camera phone)

Cheers again

hard one mate, could be casurina stricta, scrub oak..but thats just a guess...not sure at all from those pics..is it heavy, does it smell...?

By the bark on the side branch I was thinking poplar but in the pics the wood is too dark. But very poor quality photos, weight and smell would help as reeves said.