Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 17031 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 154.00 PLATANACEAE Platanus occidentalis | 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 | |||
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| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/00/1862 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Collector unknown. ? Is very abundant in the western and south western parts of Canada, attaining an average height of 120 feet, 60 feet to first limbs, and 30 inches in diameter. It yields a clean wood, softer than beech, very difficult al, most impossible to split. Sometimes handsomely mottled, used in furniture, chiefly for bedsteads, pianofortes and harps, for screws, presses, windlasses, wheels, blocks etc and immense quanities exported to Virginia for tabacco boxes. Price at Quebec at #, 48 per 1000 cubic feet. Specific gravity 0.5. | ||||