Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 10825 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 82.01 CORNACEAE Nyssa multiflora | Entry Book Number | 20.1983 | |
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Canada | TDWG Region | Canada | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | Canada | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: MATERIALS - Wood User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Wood | ||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | BM (Nat. Hist.) | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1862 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: ? found only in the Western part of Upper Canada, and of an average height of 100 feet, of 60 feet to the first limb, and of ? 18 inches in diameter; scarce. The bark light grey, similar to that of White Oak, and broken into hexagons. The, wood is white, fine-grained, soft, the texture consisting of interwoven ?, rendering it very difficult to split. It is, therefore, useful ? beetles, naves of wheels, and for the purposes requiring the toughest timber. | ||||