Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 5443 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 51.03 ACERACEAE Acer dasycarpum | 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 | British Museum (Natural History) | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: 1862 Found abundantly throughout Canda in all rich soils, and attains a height of 130 feet and 12 feet in circumference. From its beauty and abundance in Canada, the leaf of the Maple has been adopted as the National emblem The timber is ve, ry beautiful and is distinguished as Birds Eye Maple and Mottled or Curly Maple (Acer rubrum), and is much used for picture frames and in furniture; the less ornamental portions of the timber are much used for house carpentry and furniture. ( Label stuck, over next part). The wood can be furnished at Quebec at about #45 sterling per I000 cubic feet Potash in the outer wood 8.77; in the inner 4.21 per cent.; Specific gravity 0.6; weight of cubic foot 38lbs.; value for heating purposes 80 (hickory being 100), , but most used for fuel and generally preferred to all other woods. | ||||
| Determinations: | 51.03 ACERACEAE Acer dasycarpum Ehrh. 51.03 ACERACEAE Acer saccharinum L. | ||||