Wood - Specimen details

Wood - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 17031

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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
Donor Date Donor Notes
Collector Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date 00/00/1862
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
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.

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