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Iron Wood
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'', ''Astronium urundeuva'' ... [...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] |
Astronium Urundeuva
''Astronium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae. It is native to Central and South America. ''Astronium'' is a genus of dioecious trees. Leaves are deciduous, alternate, and odd-pinnate. Species , Plants of the World Online accepted the following species: *'' Astronium concinnum'' Schott *''Astronium fraxinifolium'' Schott *'' Astronium gardneri'' Mattick *'' Astronium glaziovii'' Mattick *''Astronium graveolens'' Jacq. (syn. ''Astronium conzattii'' S.F.Blake) *'' Astronium lecointei'' Ducke *''Astronium mirandae'' F.A.Barkley *'' Astronium nelson-rosae'' Santin *'' Astronium obliquum'' Griseb. *'' Astronium pumilum'' J.D.Mitch. & Daly *'' Astronium ulei'' Mattick Species formerly placed in this genus that are now placed in '' Myracrodruon'' include: *''Astronium balansae'' Engl. → '' Myracrodruon balansae'' *''Astronium urundeuva'' → '' Myracrodruon urundeuva'' Fossil record Fossils of an ''Astronium'' sp. have been described from the foss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allocasuarina Verticillata
''Allocasuarina verticillata'', commonly known as drooping sheoak, is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a small dioecious tree that has drooping branchlets up to long, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of nine to thirteen, the mature fruiting cones long containing winged seeds ( samaras) long. Description ''Allocasuarina verticillata'' is a small dioecious tree that typically grows to a height of , has fissured bark, and the penultimate branchlets are woody. The branchlets are up to long, the leaves reduced to spreading teeth long, usually arranged in whorls of nine to thirteen around the branchlets. The sections of branchlet between the leaf whorls are long, in diameter but broader at the end near the teeth. Male flowers are arranged in spikes long, with about 2.5 to 4 whorls per cm (per 0.4 in), the anthers long. Female cones are sessile or on a peduncle up to long, and the mature cone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allocasuarina Inophloia
''Allocasuarina inophloia'', commonly known as stringybark she-oak, is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a small dioecious tree that has finely fibrous, ribbony bark, its leaves reduced to scales in whorls of seven to nine, the mature fruiting cones long containing winged seeds ( samaras) long. Description ''Allocasuarina inophloia'' is a dioecious tree with distinctive, finely fibrous, ribbony bark that typically grows to a height of . Its branchlets are up to long, the leaves reduced to scale-like teeth long, arranged in whorls of seven to nine around the branchlets. The sections of branchlet between the leaf whorls (the "articles") are long and wide. Male flowers are arranged in spikes long, in whorls of 7 to 14 per cm (per 0.4 in), the anthers long. The mature cones are long and in diameter containing dark brown samaras long. Taxonomy This she-oak was first formally described in 1882 by Ferdi ... [...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] |
Allocasuarina
''Allocasuarina'', commonly known as sheoak or she-oak, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus ''Allocasuarina'' are trees or shrubs with soft, pendulous, green branchlets, the leaves reduced to scale-like teeth. Allocasuarinas are either monoecious or dioecious, the flowers never bisexual. Male and female flowers are arranged in spikes, the female spikes developing into cone-like structures enclosing winged seeds. The genera ''Allocasuarina'' and '' Casuarina'' are similar, and many formerly in the latter now included in ''Allocasuarina''. Description Plants in the genus ''Allocasuarina'' are trees or shrubs with soft, pendulous, green branchlets, the leaves reduced to 4 to 14 scale-like teeth arranged around in whorls around ribbed, jointed branchlets. Allocasuarinas have separate male and female flowers, sometimes on one plant (monoecious), otherwise on separate male and female plants, (dioecious). Male fl ... [...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] |
Bridelia Atroviridis
''Bridelia'' is a genus of plants in the family Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1806.Willdenow, Carl Ludwig von. 1806. Species Plantarum. Editio quarta 4(2): 978-979 in Latin It is widespread across Africa, Australia, southern Asia, and various islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. /ref> ''Bridelia'' species are used as food plants by the |
Bridelia Micrantha
''Bridelia micrantha'', the mitzeeri or the coastal golden-leaf, is a tree in the family Phyllanthaceae and is native to tropical and southern Africa as well as to the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. Description A medium to tall tree (up to 20 m),Pooley, E. (1993). ''The Complete Field Guide to Trees of Natal, Zululand and Transkei''. . with a dense widely spreading crown. The leaves are large, alternate and simple. The tree may be deciduous or evergreen. Habitat They are found growing in coastal forests (such as KwaZulu-Natal Coastal Lowland Forest), riverine forest, swamp forest, woodland and along forest margins. Native distribution ''Bridelia micrantha'' is native to primarily tropical, northeast, western, west-central, and southern Africa (in Angola; Benin; Burkina Faso; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Côte d'Ivoire; Equatorial Guinea; the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ethiopia; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Kenya; Liberia; Malawi; Mali; Mozambique; Niger ... [...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] |
