Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 3067 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 33.02 ELAEOCARPACEAE Sloanea woollsii | Entry Book Number | 13.1953 | |
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Australia | TDWG Region | Australia | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | Australia, New South Wales | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Division of Wood Technology, Forestry | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Commission of N.S.W.x0Dx0A | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: A pale, brownish-coloured wood, frequently showing bluish or yellow discolourations. It is moderately close textured and easily worked, but is firm and tough. Although available in comparatively large quantities, it is not used extensively,, since the wide sapwood is liable to borer destruction. It is used for flooring, lining, turnery, brush stocks, white lead casks and for drawer sides, etc., in cabinet work. Yellow carabeen reaches a height of about 120ft and 4ft diameter in the brush for, ests of northern New South Wales and southern Queensland. H = Moderately hard. W = 30 - 42 lb per cub. ft. | ||||