Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 70122 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 123.00 MYOPORACEAE Eremophila mitchelli | Entry Book Number | 30.1934 | |
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Australia | TDWG Region | Australia | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | Australia, New South Wales, Nyngan | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: MATERIALS - Wood User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Wood | ||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Technological Museum, Sydney | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: D6207. Botanical material corresponds to this specimen. A pale yellowish-brown, close textured, rather greasy, aromatic timber with lighter coloured streaks running through it. The medullary rays are very small and numerous, the growth ring, s giving the timber figure. Although hard, it is an easy timber to work, and polishes well. Suitable for small cabinet work and panelling, veneers, turnery, fancy boxes, brush backs and similar ornamental purposes. A medium sized tree of 50 to 60 feet, fa, irly plentiful in some locaties, found in the interior of Queensland, New South Wales, and South Australia. H= Very hard. W=About 68lb per cu ft. | ||||