Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 18524 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 208.00 PINACEAE Larix laricina | Entry Book Number | 20.1983 | |
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Canada | TDWG Region | Canada | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | Canada, Northern America | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | BM (Nat. Hist.) | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1862 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: A tall slender tree, rising to the height of 80 to 100 ft, abundant in Canada in low wet lands. The wood is considered very valuable, being heavy strong and durable. Called also American larch, and hackmatac. Recently come into great de, mand for ship building and railway ties, for which latter purpose it is found to be well adapted and very durable. Best oak is superior to it only for the outside work of a ship. For knees bends garlands etc. of a ship no wood is better. Remarkably dis, tinguished from the Pines by its deciduous leaves, being bare nearly half the year. Found up to a high altitude, even in Hudsons Bay. Spec. grav 0.6 | ||||
| Determinations: | 208.00 PINACEAE Larix laricina (Du Roi) K. Koch 208.00 PINACEAE Larix americana Michx. | ||||