text: since it's coming up to christmas...what sort of wood was christ nailed to? was it oak, beech, cedar, sycamore, etc, what was it?  depending on wether or not some too easily offended moron gets this question deleted, i may ask what ratio of carbon to iron was in the metal in the nails at a later date... a microscopic examination of the fragments of the cross scattered through the world in the form of relics reveals the fact that it was made from a pine-tree.i don't know about the nails.