Wood ID help

[DuBois]

Old neighbor cut this down this spring. He said it had leaves like a cherry but never produced fruit. It smelled almost sickeningly sweet, like a car air freshener when I stripped the bark. 3 straight trunks. What you think?

[JoJoDapyro]

I recently posted photos of the same tree. Cherry like leaves and bark. Pine cone like seed pods, but very small.

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,53461.0.html

[blackhawk]

Def a cherry....pin cherry maybe/i think.....good luck...your gonna need it

[rps3]

I am no tree expert and certainly don't have the knowledge to contradict Chris, but when we were kids we would eat the bark off those trees and called them birch.

[Pat B]

I'd say cherry also.

[Marc St Louis]

If it's low density wood, and the growth rings would suggest that, then it would be a Pin Cherry

[wapiti1997]

If you are at higher elevation  1800' and above and it smells like wintergreen I'd say sweet birch, black cherry smells nasty, not sure about the other native cherries.

[Pat B]

The sweet birch here doesn't have bark like that. It is gray in color and doesn't have the obvious lenticels like this tree does. 

[Redhand]

That looks like what we call river birch where I live

[Pat B]

 River birch has exfoliating bark and not smooth bark like this one.

[mikekeswick]

Birch.

[wapiti1997]

The presence of many lenticels in sweet birch is why it's scientific name is Betula lenta.  The "air freshener" smell described makes me think sweet birch.  I've always wanted to cut one for a bow next time I'm in the mountains.

[Pat B]

Our sweet birch doesn't look like that. It is gray in color and not red like in these pics. It does have the wintergreen smell and it was distilled into oil of wintergreen back in the day.

[JoJoDapyro]

That is for sure the same tree that I posted.

[thomcout_96]

Looks alot like cherry and it is possible that a tree doest not produced fruit for multiple reasons.