Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 12046 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 101.01 SAPOTACEAE Mimusops globosa | Entry Book Number | 11.1928 | |
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Trinidad and Tobago | TDWG Region | Trinidad and Tobago | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | Trinidad | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Cons. of Forests. Trinidad | Donor No | 11 | ||
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| Notes: | Label source: A large tree growing up to 120ft high and exceeding 6 ft diam. Dark reddish brown, hard, heavy (about 70lbs per cu ft) splits easily and is comparatively easy to work. Favourite wood in Colony for all outdoor work where strength and durabi, lity are required, and is much used for railway sleepers, wagons, bridges and building const. Yields a well known balata gum of commerce, intermediary between rubber and guta percha. Known as bullet wood in Tobago. | ||||