Woody Smells

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11 January 2015 at 11:44 

The weather and my cold determined we weren't going to Druridge Bay today as promised so Ferretfingers and I have been cutting the Xmas tree into kindling and logs for the fire.   

Don't know what tree it was but when we sawed into it there was a smell of orange peel.  In fact when you sniff the end of one of the logs there is still a definite smell of bitter orange.   

Any of you woody people (Sandy) out there know what it might be? 

I was delighted to learn some time ago from Fester that rosewood is so called because it smells of roses when you saw it (his dad was a joiner).

Later

Should have googled it.   

It's an American Concolor Fir also known as White Fir . 

So how did we end up being sold one by a greengrocer's in Benton?

Re smells.  Before Xmas Fester bought me a pot with half a dozen hyacinths on the point of flowering which we put on the windowsill in the downstairs loo.  They have been flowering their hearts out ever since scenting the hall beautifully.

Sandy The commonest tree in Britain these days is Sitka spruce (from Alaska) so I suppose distance is no object when it comes to conifers