Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 25337 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 102.00 EBENACEAE Diospyros ebenum | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Mauritius | TDWG Region | Mauritius | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | Mauritius | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: MATERIALS - Wood User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Wood | ||
| Storage | Woods size D | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Col. & Ind. Exhib. 1886 | Donor No | 90 | ||
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| Notes: | Label source: Ceylon Ceylon or East Indian ebony is one of the hardest & heaviest of woods: difficult to work, with severe blunting effects on tools: used in turnery for fancy articles and in inlay work also for parts of musical instruments such as finge, r boards, saddles, pegs, buttons, tail pieces etc. Wt 74 lb/cu.ft. Large tree native of Ceylon and south India. The heartwood forms the Ebony of commerce. | ||||