Does this look like yew

[vinemaplebows]

He's got us on a string holding out on the "true" ID,  lets see some pics of needles or whatever is grow on this tree!

[TacticalFate]

Looks like  fast-growing ornamental yew to me, I've got a few pieces for carving, and they all have bark like that, big rings, and light heartwood.

[randman]

One way to tell if it is Juniper or Yew would be by the smell. Any juniper is hard to miss by the smell. Yew doesn't smell real fragrant - just kind of a sweet woody smell.

[rps3]

Thanks for the responses. I feel like an idiot for not saving the needles or taking pics when cut, but it doesnt have any odor. It was several main branches from one base, and there are some staves with much tighter growth rings, but smaller diameter.

[PEARL DRUMS]

Looks like the ornamental yew bush/shrub that grows all around my sisters house. If you let them grow they will get "bow" sized if your lucky.

[burn em up chuck]

   very bendy, very cool,

                    chuck

[Del the cat]

Yes/maybe
Del

[aaron]

(just for the record, yew is not a conifer- it has "berries", not cones)

[Weylin]

*pushes glasses up on nose* well, actually... The seed cones are highly modified, each cone containing a single seed 4–7 mm long partly surrounded by a modified scale which develops into a soft, bright red berry-like structure called an aril, 8–15 mm long and wide and open at the end.


Ok, I copied that off of Wikipedia.  But they are a conifer. They just look like berries. 

[blackhawk]

*pushes glasses up on nose* well, actually... The seed cones are highly modified, each cone containing a single seed 4–7 mm long partly surrounded by a modified scale which develops into a soft, bright red berry-like structure called an aril, 8–15 mm long and wide and open at the end.


Ok, I copied that off of Wikipedia.  But they are a conifer. They just look like berries. 

Thanks professor  

[aaron]

(stands corrected.)
sorry for the hijack.

[Bitterguy]

No, I don't look like a bow. I have arms,legs and a face and such   

[Carson (CMB)]

I think it could be an ornamental yew.  I have cut some where the bark looks like that, but the heartwood was almost bright red/pink.  What does the end of that log cut look like? 

[rps3]

As you describe it Carson, more reddish pink on the ends when just cut. Do you think I can expect some good bows from this wood.? I have quite a bit big enough for full size bows.

[mikekeswick]

Apart from the very low ring count.....yew
Come on guys what the debate for! Obvious ain't it?