Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 9508 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 67.01 MYRTACEAE Eucalyptus grandis | 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 light-red coloured, straight-grained rather open-textured, free-working timber. It is often substituted for Blue Gum, Eucalyptus saligna, which it often resembles, but generally growing on moist land, it is usually more porous, softer and, paler coloured and less durable. It is used for light building scantlings, rusticated weatherboards, flooring, wagon work, shipbuilding plywood, handles. A large forest tree growing chiefly in the North Coast districts of New South Wales and in Queenslan, d. H=Hard. W=About 50 lb. per cub. ft. | ||||
| Determinations: | 67.01 MYRTACEAE Eucalyptus grandis Hill and Maiden 67.01 MYRTACEAE Eucalyptus saligna | ||||