Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 31273 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 208.00 PINACEAE Larix decidua | Entry Book Number | 70.1914 | |
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | Europe, D?rnaway, forres | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: MATERIALS - Wood User: Not defined | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Wood | ||
| Storage | Woods size D | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Moray Earl of | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Native of Central Europe. No forest tree ever introduced to GB from abroad has proved so valuable as this. Throughout the 19 century it was planted by British foresters in great numbers than any other tree, native or foreign, and although, during recent decades many plantations have been ruined by the attacks of a parasitic fungus, it still remains the most important of introduced forest trees. Originally brought to England about 1606, it was not until the middle years of the following ce, ntury, when it was largely planted in Scotland by one of the Dukes of Atholl, that its value began to be appreciated. It produces a most useful timber largely used for building fences, scaffold and telegraph poles, and on account of its durability under, water for wharf building. From a tree 90 years old grown at an elevation of 500 ft on deep moist gravel with a SW exposure. | ||||