Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 17658 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 159.03 FAGACEAE Quercus 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: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | BM (Nat. Hist.) | Donor No | 56/2 | ||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1862 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: ...da in all rich soils. ...limb 70 feet...diameter and found...arts of Upper Canada. Of the twenty varieties of oaks in North America, the White is the most valuable. The wood is of great strength and durability, and extensively used in sh, ip building, for staves of casks, spokes and naves of wagon wheels, railway ties etc.; bark useful in tanning and in medicine. The timber is largely exported to England and the West Indies, and can be furnished in the remotest parts of Upper Canada at 40, pounds sterling per 1000 cubic feet;freight to Quebec about 11 pounds sterling per 1000 cubic feet. Specific gravity 0.84; weight of cubic foot, fully seasoned, 50 lbs. Potash obtained from outer wood 13.41, and from the heart wood 9.68, per cent; value f, or heatingpurposes 81 (shell-bark hickory being 100). | ||||