Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 17057 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 156.01 JUGLANDACEAE Carya alba | Entry Book Number | 20.1983 | |
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Canada | TDWG Region | Canada | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | Canada | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: User: Man | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | BM (Nat Hist) | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1862 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: A tall slender forest tree, of an average height of 110 feet, 50 feet to the first limb and 18 inches in diameter. The fruit is covered with a very thick epicarp, separating into four parts and containing a thin shelled highly flavoured ker, nel. The tree is covered with a shaggy bark, consisting of long narrow plates loosely adhering by the middle; hence called Shell or Shaggy-bark hickory; it is also called Walnut in parts of the country where the Black walnut does not grow. It is the heavi, est of all Canadian woods, strong, compact and elastic and much used where these qualities are required as for the handles of all kinds of tools and spokes of carriage wheels, shafts and poles of carriages, hoops, whip stalks, hand spikes etc. From the ba, rk is extracted a yellow dye. Specific gravity 0.929; weight of cubic foot 58 lbs.; value for heating purposes 100 (The best of all Canadian woods) inside wood contains 20 per cent of potash; outside 7.5 per cent. | ||||