Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 9482 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 67.01 MYRTACEAE Eucalyptus gigantea | 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 - Wood User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Wood | ||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Div. of Wood Tech., Forestry Comm., N.S.W. | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: A large tree, found at high elevations on the southern tablelands of New South Wales and in Victoria and Tasmania. The timber is pale-coloured, free working, moderately hard, yet fissile. It is a splendid cabinet timber, being equal in many, respects to English and American Oak and Ash. At the present time furniture, joinery, flooring, oars, hoe and other handles and cask staves are being manufactured from it. H=Moderately hard. W=40-48 lb. per cub. ft. | ||||
| Determinations: | 67.01 MYRTACEAE Eucalyptus gigantea "Hooker,f." 67.01 MYRTACEAE Eucalyptus delegatensis Baker | ||||