Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 846 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 18.00 PITTOSPORACEAE Pittosporum undulatum | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Australia | TDWG Region | Australia | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | Australia, New South Wales | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: MATERIALS - Wood User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Wood | ||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | International Exhib. 1862 | Donor No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Natural Order Pittosp.: 1. Pittosporum undulatum, Vent. - A tree growing in favourable situations to a height of 40ft or even 60ft, native of New South Wales and Victoria. It furnishes a light, even-grained wood, which attracted some atten, tion at the International Exhibition in 1862; some blocks were prepared from it, and submitted to Prof. de la Motte, of King's College, who reported as follows: 'I consider this wood well adapted to certain kinds of wood engraving. It is not equal to Tur, key box, but it is superior to that generally used for posters, and I have no doubt that it would answer for the rollers of mangles and wringing-machines'. Mr W G Smith, in a report in the Gardeners Chronicle for July 26th, 1837, p.1017, on some foreign w, oods which I have submitted to him for trial, says that the wood of P.u. is suitable only for bold outlines; compared with box, it soft and tough, and requires more force to cut than box. The toughness of the wood causes the tools to drag back, so that g, reat care is required in cutting to prevent the lines slipping. The average diameter of the wood is from 18in. | ||||