Can anyone identify this wood?

[Kenneth Whiting 79]

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I was given some wood that my brother in law was paid to get rid of. This is about 8 inches across and about 4 1/2 inches deep. In these photos it had 2 coats of salad bowl finish on it.

[Cody Armstrong]

My first guess would be holly.

[Kenneth Whiting 79]

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here is the other half of the log.

[Bill Hensley]

The wood color and bark look similar to Beech. But that is only a guess.

[Kenneth Whiting 79]

I let it sit overnight and put a third cost of salad bowl finish on it. I just turned it around to do the bottom. The color really changed a lot....
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[Jeffrey J Smith]

looks like sycamore to me - with some interesting spalting going on...

[Scott Vincent]

Looks like "gorgeous" wood to me. Wish I had some growing nearby. Sorry can't really help. Very nice though.

[bob svoboda]

Looks a lot like a hunk of Holly I have stored away

[Kenneth Whiting 79]

Is the darkening normal?

[robert baccus]

The presence of growth rings rules out holly--another wild guess would be hickory or pecan. Does it smell very bad?

[Kenneth Whiting 79]

It has a very diluted odor. It actually smells watered down.

[Don Orr]

Looks a lot like one of the Elms to me. If you look dead center of the photo you can see some ziggy-zaggy (a highly technical term in wood identification) lines in the grain that are characteristic of the interlocked grain of Elm.

[Jim Sevey]

I have some spalted olive that looks like that. In my opinion- when you turn it- the fresh cut wood smells kind of like black olives. My wife thinks I'm crazy but my nose is better than hers.

[Bruce Pratt]

Bradford pear?

[Gary Sichmeller]

Looks like hickory to me.