Hi chaps. I have a couple of trees that I'd like identifying. One living and one very much dead.
Here's the living one...
and here is the dead one. Now this one is a real puzzler. It's been chopped down a long long time ago but rather than rot it seems to have hardened. The cut surface is totally smooth and looks almost like a piece of bakelite. Hit it with a spade and it sounds as if you are hitting stone..the sound is nothing like hitting wood. The colour is purply and yellowy-brown. So hard that it has blunted the blade on my chainsaw without really trying.
Any ideas ?