Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 18018 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 160.00 SALICACEAE Populus deltoides | 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 | 78 | ||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1862 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: A large forest tree occurring on the margins of lakes and rivers. The timber is soft, light, easy to work, suited for carving, common turning, and works not exposed to much wear. The wooden polishing wheels of glass grinders are made of hor, izontal sections of the entire tree. The seeds are clothed in white cotton-like down, hence the name. Specific gravity 0.4 | ||||
| Determinations: | 160.00 SALICACEAE Populus deltoides Marsh. 160.00 SALICACEAE Populus monilifera Ait. | ||||