Hi Candido. No one can answer that with any certainty about the type of wood used for Roman crosses. The best guesses simply include the available trees in that area, & in a couple of cases of unearthing an old Roman cross, evidences of certain woods were found: namely, olive wood & acacia wood. However, pine, cedar, oak & dogwood have been given as other options. In any case, crosses certainly had to be strong, sturdy & with a long useful life as they were used multiple times in the execution of criminals, for even relatively minor infractions - the Romans were a particularly cruel regime.
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