Wood ID help, take a shot at it

[Jon Grider]

I scavenged this wood from a shipping pallet about 10 years ago and ran across it while doing some housecleaning in my wood storage area. It has a slightly greenish/yellow hue, beautiful curl figure as you can see and when cut, smells like sweaty underwear. The end grain looks pretty diffuse to me, and as I recall, there were other boards on the pallet that did not have the curl figure. I believe it was a domestic pallet. 398821398821398821398822398822 Sorry for the repeat images and disconnected text, I'm not sure what I did.

[Prashun Patel]

I’m going with curly maple.

The color and end grain reminds me more of sycamore that I’ve used, but I have never seen it have that kind of curl.

Sycamaple?

Nice find.

[Mark Bolton]

Figure sure looks like curly Maple but to pourous rings and voids dont. Im going with some sort of fast growing tropical cane-like tree. Have no idea what that is but I dont think its any domestic.

[John K Jordan]

This page with curly maple examples shows some end grain.

I can't see any ring porosity in Jon's photo.

[Barry Richardson]

could be box elder, it's stinky....

[Jon Grider]

I'm not thinking it's in the maple family, it does not look like the curly maple stash I have and it's considerably lighter than soft maple. My first impression was poplar because of the color, but I've not seen poplar with that pronounced a curl figure. And the smell is powerful, my wife was disgusted with the odor when she visited my shop 15 minutes after I sliced the end off the board on the SCMS and this is after a decade's worth of air drying. Perhaps Mark B has it right.
Thanks for the input, feel free to add on.

[Jim Becker]

The smell may be the clue...the only thing I've had that had a similar smell was elm. Poplar has a clean smell to it. Maple almost no smell. But from a pallet, it could have come from somewhere else in the world, too, which could make it harder to identify exactly. So I would just call it "beautiful wood" and make something with it!

[Peter Christensen]

You can always send a sample to the Forest Products Lab and they will tell you for sure.

https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/research/centers/woodanatomy/wood_idfactsheet.php

[John K Jordan]

....So I would just call it "beautiful wood" and make something with it!

And if someone asks,
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[Gary Ragatz]

The smell may be the clue...the only thing I've had that had a similar smell was elm.

Not to suggest that this is the answer to the OP's question, but I've always thought oak smells like sweat or urine.

[Frank Pratt]

Not to suggest that this is the answer to the OP's question, but I've always thought oak smells like sweat or urine.

That would be red oak.

[Jim Andrew]

Cottonwood has a funky smell, and it is about the right color.

[Matt Day]

Pics aren’t the best, but I’m going with curly maple cut with dull blades.