Wood - Specimen details

Wood - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 7220

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Plant Name 57.02 LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE Dimorphandra mora Entry Book Number 11.1928
Artefact Name Wood Vernacular Name
Iso Country Trinidad and Tobago TDWG Region Trinidad and Tobago
Parts Held Wood Geography Description Trinidad
Uses WoodUse: MATERIALS User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS
Storage Woods size B Related Items
Donor Conservator of Forests Donor No
Donor Date Donor Notes
Collector Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: This tree is gregarious over 60,000 - 70,000 acres; it grows up to 30 feet high and has large buttresses. The wood is very hard, heavy, strong, tough and durable and somewhat hard to work; weight about 70 lbs per cubic foot. It ? a smooth f, inish and takes a good polish; it is rated a ? shipbuilding wood at Lloyds. Suitable for ship building, bridges, railway wagons, railway sleepers, shop fittings and furniture. A large quanity of Mora was used twenty years ago in the erection of the Coloni, al Hospital, Spain, and this wood is still in an excellent state of condition. Would make very fine polished floors. Two species are recognised locally - the red and the white of the two the former is considered the superior wood.

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