Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 19212 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 210.00 CUPRESSACEAE Juniperus virginiana | 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 - 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: Grows in many parts of Canada in dry rocky situations. It sometimes attains the size of 24 inches in diameter, but mostly smaller. Leaves are dark green the younger ones small, ovate, acute. scale-like, overlying each other. The wood is fin, e grained, compact, of a reddish hue, very light and durable. Used for pencil cases hence called pencil pine. | ||||