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Ironwood
Ironwood is a common name for many woods that have a reputation for hardness, or specifically a wood density that is denser than water (approximately 1000 kg/m3, or 62 pounds per cubic foot), although usage of the name ironwood in English may or may not indicate a tree that yields such heavy wood. Some of the species with their common name * '' Acacia aulacocarpa'' (Brush ironwood) * '' Acacia estrophiolata'' (Southern ironwood), central Australia * '' Acacia excelsa'' (Ironwood) * '' Acacia melanoxylon'' (Ironwood) * '' Acacia stenophylla'' (Ironwood), Australia * '' Aegiphila martinicensis'' (Ironwood) * '' Afzelia africana'' (Ironwood) * '' Androstachys johnsonii'' (Lebombo ironwood), southeastern Africa and Madagascar * '' Allagoptera caudescens'', ''Borassus flabellifer'', '' Caryota urens'', '' Iriartea deltoidea'' Black Palm, Palmira wood (Black ironwood) * '' Argania spinosa'' (Morocco ironwood, Thorny, Prickly ironwood) * '' Astronium fraxinifolium'', '' Astron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Backhousia Bancroftii
''Backhousia'' is a genus of thirteen currently known species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae. All the currently known species are endemic to Australia in the rainforests and seasonally dry forests of Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia. In 1845 in the European science publication the ''Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Botanical Magazine'' William Jackson Hooker and William Henry Harvey first published this genus's formal description and name, after botanist James Backhouse from England and Australia. They grow to aromatic shrubs or trees from tall, with leaves long and wide, arranged opposite to each other. Species Sourced from the authoritative ''Australian Plant Name Index'' and ''Australian Plant Census'' . For Taxon, taxa including undescribed species further afield outside Australia, for example likely in New Guinea, this list lacks them—refer also to the genus ''Kania''. * ''Backhousia angustifolia'' , curry myrtle, narrow leaf myrtle * ''Bac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Estrophiolata
''Acacia estrophiolata'', commonly known as ironwood, southern ironwood, desert ironwood or utjanypa, is a tree native to Central Australia. Description It is a graceful, pendulous shade tree, which grows from about tall and has a trunk with a diameter of up to about 0.45 m. It has a spreading crown that becomes weeping as the tree matures. Young plants have rigid branches and short straight phyllodes that appear in clusters. As trees mature the branches become pendulous and the light green, spiky phyllodes increase in length but are no longer clustered. It has a heavy bloom of spherical pale yellow flowers after winter rains. The tree has a slow growth rate and is both drought and frost tolerant. Taxonomy The species was first formally described by botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1882 as part of the work ''Definitions of some new Australian plants'' as published in ''Southern Science Record''. It was reclassified as ''Racosperma estrophiolatum'' by Leslie Pedley in 1987 then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Backhousia Subargentea
''Backhousia subargentea'' (syn. ''Choricarpia subargentea'') is a rare Australian rainforest tree, growing near Mullumbimby in northeastern New South Wales and from Boonah to Imbil in southeastern Queensland. Common names include giant ironwood, ironwood box, scrub ironwood and lancewood. The New South Wales habitat of ''Backhousia subargentea'' is dry rainforest thickets on hillsides near Mullumbimby. It grows in association with the shatterwood and wild quince. Description ''Backhousia subargentea'' is a small to medium tree, occasionally reaching 30 metres in height. However, it is much smaller in New South Wales, reaching only 8 m high and with a stem diameter of 20 cm. The trunk is often multi-stemmed and crooked, not cylindrical in cross-section, with some buttressing at the base. The trunk can be smooth and glossy, of an attractive orange-brown or pinkish mauve colour, or green where bark has recently been shed. At other times, the bark sheds irregul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Androstachys Johnsonii
''Androstachys johnsonii'', the Lebombo ironwood, is a medium-sized Afrotropical tree species, and the sole member of the genus ''Androstachys'' in the Picrodendraceae. It is slow-growing, evergreen to deciduous, and dioecious, with flowers that are wind-pollinated. It is native to southeastern Africa and Madagascar, where it generally occurs gregariously on rocky hillsides, particularly in hot and dry situations. It produces a hard, durable wood which is of economic interest. Its specific name commemorates W. H. Johnson, a 19th-century Director of Agriculture in Mozambique. Four related species which are native to Madagascar, are usually placed in genus '' Stachyandra''. Uses Its timber is of economical interest. The wood is extremely hard and durable. It is widely exploited in southern Mozambique, where it is known as ''simbirre''. Here it is used for flooring, for which it is well-suited, and is commonly traded for pillars of huts and fences. South African tourist operators in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casuarinaceae
The Casuarinaceae are a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants placed in the order Fagales, consisting of four genera and 91 species of trees and shrubs native to eastern Africa, Australia, Southeast Asia, Malesia, Papuasia, and the Pacific Islands. At one time, all species were placed in the genus '' Casuarina''. Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson separated out many of those species and renamed them into the new genera of '' Gymnostoma'' in 1980 and 1982, '' Allocasuarina'' in 1982, and ''Ceuthostoma'' in 1988, with some additional formal descriptions of new species in each other genus. At the time, it was somewhat controversial. The monophyly of these genera was later supported in a 2003 phylogenetic study of the family. In the Wettstein system, this family was the only one placed in the order Verticillatae. Likewise, in the Engler, Cronquist, and Kubitzki systems, the Casuarinaceae were the only family placed in the order Casuarinales. Members of this family are charac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carpinus Caroliniana
''Carpinus caroliniana'', the American hornbeam, is a small hardwood understory tree in the genus ''Carpinus''. American hornbeam is also known as blue-beech, ironwood, musclewood and muscle beech. It is native to eastern North America, from Minnesota and southern Ontario east to Maine, and south to eastern Texas and northern Florida. It also grows in Canada (southwest Quebec and southeast Ontario). It occurs naturally in shaded areas with moist soil, particularly near the banks of streams or rivers, and is often a natural constituent understory species of the riverine and maritime forests of eastern temperate North America. Description ''Carpinus caroliniana'' (American hornbeam) is a small tree reaching heights of , and often has a fluted and crooked trunk. The bark is smooth and greenish-grey, becoming shallowly fissured in all old trees. The leaves are alternate, long, with prominent veins giving a distinctive corrugated texture, and a serrated margin. The male and female ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wood
Wood is a structural tissue/material found as xylem in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulosic fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin that resists compression. Wood is sometimes defined as only the secondary xylem in the stems of trees, or more broadly to include the same type of tissue elsewhere, such as in the roots of trees or shrubs. In a living tree, it performs a mechanical-support function, enabling woody plants to grow large or to stand up by themselves. It also conveys water and nutrients among the leaves, other growing tissues, and the roots. Wood may also refer to other plant materials with comparable properties, and to material engineered from wood, woodchips, or fibers. Wood has been used for thousands of years for fuel, as a construction material, for making tools and weapons, furniture and paper. More recently it emerged as a feedstock for the production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Stenophylla
''Acacia stenophylla'', commonly referred to as the shoestring acacia, is an evergreen tree in the family Fabaceae and native to Australia. It is not considered rare or endangered. Description ''Acacia stenophylla'' varies in characteristic and size from a rounded, multi-stemmed shrub to a spreading tree. ''A. stenophylla'' grows from tall, often stemming into branches at the trunk from about . Bark is dark-grey to blackish and rough, branchlets are smooth to sericeous and sometimes angular. The phyllodes are strap-like, long, wide, straight to slightly curved, slightly rough, free from hair or very finely puberulous, acute to acuminate, apex is often strongly curved. Veins are copious and closely parallel. The racemes are 3– to 5-headed, with stems long, which are slightly rough or with appressed minute hairs. The peduncles are long. The flower heads are creamy-white to pale yellow in colour, spherical and in diameter. Flowers are pentamerous, with sepals three-quar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Excelsa
''Acacia excelsa'', also known as ironwood, rosewood, bunkerman and doodlallie is a tree of the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Plurinerves'' that is endemic to inland parts of north-eastern Australia. In the Gamilaraay language it is known as dhan, gayan or gan. Description The shrub or tree typically grows to a height of can grow to a height of around and usually has a weeping or erect to spreading habit. It has hard, fissured and deep grey coloured bark and glabrous branchlets. The wood of the tree has a scent similar to cut violets. Like most species of ''Acacia'' it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The glabrous, evergreen phyllodes are straight or slightly curved and have a narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblong shape. The phyllodes are usually in length but can be as long as and wide with three to seven prominent longitudinal veins. It blooms between March and June in its natural range producing simple inflorescences that occur in groups of one to four usually in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Backhousia Citriodora
''Backhousia citriodora'', commonly known as lemon myrtle, lemon scented myrtle or lemon scented ironwood, is a flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae. It is native to the subtropical rainforests of central and south-eastern Queensland, Australia, with a natural distribution from Mackay to Brisbane. Description and ecology The species can reach in height, but is often smaller. The leaves are evergreen, opposite, lanceolate, long and broad, glossy green, with an entire margin. The flowers are creamy-white, in diameter, produced in clusters at the ends of the branches from summer through to autumn. After petal fall, the calyx is persistent. A significant fungal pathogen, myrtle rust ('' Uredo rangelii'') was detected in lemon myrtle plantations in January 2011. Myrtle rust severely damages new growth and threatens lemon myrtle production. Etymology Lemon myrtle was given the botanical name ''Backhousia citriodora'' by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1853 after his friend, the Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allocasuarina Torulosa
''Allocasuarina torulosa'', commonly known as forest oak, rose sheoak, river oak or Baker's oak, is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a slender, usually dioecious tree that has drooping branchlets up to long, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of four or five, and the fruiting cones long containing winged seeds ( samaras) long. Description ''Allocasuarina torulosa'' is slender, usually dioecious tree that typically grows to a height of . Its branchlets are drooping, up to long, the leaves reduced to erect, scale-like teeth long, arranged in whorls of four or five around the branchlets. The sections of branchlet between the leaf whorls are long, wide and more or less square in cross-section when young. Male flowers are arranged in spikes long, with 7 to 12 whorls per cm (per 0.4 in), the anthers long. Female cones are on a peduncle long, and mature cones are warty, shortly cylindrical to barrel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allocasuarina Luehmannii
''Allocasuarina luehmannii'', commonly known as buloke or bull-oak, is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a dioecious tree, that has its leaves reduced to scales in whorls of ten to fourteen, and the mature fruiting cones are long containing winged seeds ( samaras) long. Description ''Allocasuarina luehmannii'' is a dioecious tree that typically grows to a height of and has furrowed bark. Its branchlets are more or less erect, up to long, the leaves reduced to scale-like teeth long, arranged in whorls of ten to fourteen around the branchlets. The sections of branchlet between the leaf whorls (the "articles") are long, wide and often waxy. Male flowers are arranged in spikes long, in whorls of five to eight per cm (per 0.4 in), the anthers long. Female cones are sessile or on a peduncle up to long, the mature cones shortly cylindrical, long and in diameter containing reddish-br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
