Wood - Specimen details

Wood - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 25662

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Plant Name 211.01 PODOCARPACEAE Dacrydium cupressinum Entry Book Number 58.1881
Artefact Name Wood Vernacular Name
Iso Country New Zealand TDWG Region New Zealand
Parts Held Wood Geography Description New Zealand
Uses WoodUse: MATERIALS - Wood User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS - Wood
Storage Woods size D Related Items
Donor Melbourne Inter. Exhib. 1880 Donor No 18
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Notes: Label source: E ??Smith Taranak 623 H56 Rimu or Red Pine is perhaps the principal indigenous timber of New Zealand reddish brown heartwood, lighter sapwood: very strong, easily worked, takes a good polish. Weight 38lb/cu.ft. Tree, pyrimidal, with weepin, g branches. Trunk ?? feet to 130 feet high and 2 to 6 feet diameter. An ornamental and useful timber, wood red, clear grained, heavy and solid, much used for joisting and planking, and general building purposes, from Wellington southward. Its chief drawba, ck is in being liable to decay under the influence of wet. It is largely used in the manufacture of furniture the old wood being handsomely marked like rosewood, but of a lighter brown hue. The juice of this pine is agreeable to drink, and was manufacture, d into Spruce beer by Captain Cook. Grows throughout the northern and southern Islands, but is of best quality in the South.

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