Species id help please

[Taxus brevifolia]

https://youtu.be/wTC3f5_ceY0

Thanks
 in advance!

[Pat B]

Possibly a honeysuckle(Lonicera)

[simk]

to me it looks like some kind of syringa - but dont trust my guess...

[Limbit]

Looks like honeysuckle. Always famous for its shoots making good arrow shafts, but the wood is also a good bowwood....if you can find a big enough piece. The heartwood is a nice honey orange color. Very dense.

[nsherve]

I've never heard of a vine making arrowshafts...I have honeysuckle all over the place here.

[Pat B]

There are many types of honeysuckle; small trees, shrub and vines. What you have is a shrub type.

[Taxus brevifolia]

Ok here is what I harvested, looks like a couple premium pieces.
I may rough out a stave while it's green. I've done some looking around, sounds like for this material, it might be better to work it green to some degree. Cut down to smaller pieces, it might help it properly dry without checking problems.

https://youtu.be/1bu2Gao37gA

[Pat B]

Those knuckles should be fun to play with.

[Taxus brevifolia]

I think maybe one of them is possibly solid enough for a handle. The rest are definitely not, so for those it's either short bows or more likely individual limbs.

[Limbit]

Although I said Honeysuckle before, that wood does not look like honeysuckle I've seen when cut. The larger diameter piece ought to have some darker honey colored heartwood. I am not familiar with your area, but it might be something else.

[Taxus brevifolia]

Here's why I think it's honeysuckle:
All season long that place reeks of it; government PDFs say it's present in the area; it fits all the descriptions of honeysuckle I can find; mygardenanswers and plant snap both id'd it as first choice;  and many of the pictures of different examples of bark match well with the variety of bark found on a single shrub;

I was pretty sure before I posted, and 2 of the first 3 replies corroborated. BTW, pretty sure it's not syringa. Syringa has similar bark & leaves, but not the same, and the way it grows/branches is different

[Taxus brevifolia]

Agh now I can't stop wondering if it's syringa. Limbut you may be right. I look back on my list, objectively I haven't nailed it down with the discrepancy on what the wood looks like in cross section, and lilac does grow in that area. So it may be spring before we get a positive ID by the flowers.

[DC]

From what I've heard if it was Lilac it would have checked by now . Take care with it, it's supposed to be good wood.

[Taxus brevifolia]

Thank you yes I've got it all sealed up nice and tight with paraffin. I'll rough one out to compare over time. There's strong anecdotal evidence to suggest cutting it early might help avoid checking.

You know the heartwood doesn't even closely resemble that of syringa

[Bryce]

You would probably get more replies if you posted photos instead of YouTube links.
But to answer your question it’s Mock Orange, also knows as syringa