Help IDing Wood

[Mike Goetzke]

I took a couple pictures of the underside of a table leaf one dry and one wet. I also took a USB microscope pic of the end grain of the wood. Pulled out my "Understanding Wood" book and it's still hard to tell but almost look like elm? I also included dry and wet pics of the bottom of a table leaf. I measured the wood density from a piece off the leaf and it's 41.3#/ft3 (661 kg/m3).

Thanks

 

[Marc Banka]

Looks like Birch to me

 

[Leo Van Der Loo]

I don't think it is Elm wood, but more likely like Mark says it could be Birch,

Elm grain from one of my pictures here below.

 

[Richard Coers]

More like beech to me. Birch does not have prominent medullary rays, beech does.

 

[Leo Van Der Loo]

I always look for the rays in Beech as they make Beech to ID so easy, none showing in the OP pictures