Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 17380 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 159.02 CORYLACEAE Carpinus americana | 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 User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | BM (Nat. Hist.) | Donor No | 64 | ||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1862 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Common along streams; grows 10 to 20 feet high, with ridged trunk, and exceedingly hard whitish wood; excellent for cogs of wheels and for purposes requiring extreme hardness. The trunk is also made into brooms by being peeled by a knife, a, nd is the most durable and soft of the splint brooms. Specific gravity 0.79; weight of cubic foot 47 lbs. | ||||