Anyone tell me what this is?

Eucalyptus?

Pogles?

Got?
Help if there were leaves attached, and not Ivy.

Could be Holly.

Laurel

If it is, don’t burn it in your stove!.

It does look a bit Eucalyptusy.

Giant asparagus ?

Looks like holly branches to me but surely the leaves would tell you that??

Willow

I guess holly too.

Yew must be joking. You’re expecting us alder know what tree that is?

Keith?

fire wood ?

Tree wood

That’ll be curly spalted sycoakashelmamore with rainbow medullary rays.

Obvs.

Timberrrrrrrrr!

Some brilliant and hilarious responses, thanks. There were no leaves in sight.

Gotta be holly.

Re Laurel – why can’t you burn it? I thought it was a kind of fruit tree. I’ve got a fair bit in my stack for next winter. Admittedly an utter ****er to split.

Pussy willow.

It might not even be wood.

You need to check the angle:

Young ash or holly.

Maybe.

Rich S, lovely area, but you’re going to have to spell it out to me!

Young ash

Interesting. There was a lot of other Ash around, so Ash would be a likely candidate. The wood didn’t look very ash like though – yellow and soft like pine, not white an hard.

On reflection the wood didn’t look much like Holly either, but the bark did.

A willow or holly, although the cut wood has oxidised and darkened.
Pretty certain it will burn if that is what you ultimately want to know.

The issue with laurel is that it gives off cyanide. Done some large scale burning of it, after about the third day you get bit of a headache, so don’t think the levels are that high as that was about half an acre of the stuff.

Many thanks Timber, given your user name I’m gonna take that as definitive.

I’ll be careful not to be on the roof with my face over the chimney when I burn the Laurel.

Sorry OOB – does this help identify if it is wood or not?

Mary Whitehouse test for wood

laburnum ?

“Sorry OOB – does this help identify if it is wood or not?”

I get you now. 🙂

“laburnum”

Yes, I will be burning ’em.

It’s Ayahuasca vine.

I believe the cyanide is in the leaves of Laurel. I’ve burned the stuff on a hot flaming fire, trusting that HCN wouldn’t survive the process.

YMMV

Laurel is fine to burn.

Dead?

Looks quite like the privet hedge I cut down earlier this year

Well, clearly demonstrated that it is monkey puzzle.

It may leaf us in suspense.

I initially thought holly but usually plenty of branches coming off the main trunk, can’t see where any have been removed in your picture? (i cut down and burnt tons of the stuff on Monday, and many more tons last year)

It looks like Ash but with Ash dieback or “Chalara”.
Pretty common these days…

It’s goat willow.

I need to know now.