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8th December 2012, 11:53 PM #1
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Flame Tree
Driving past a place the other week and I spy a stump near a fence line, mmm I say to myself, used to be a tree there, look over into the padock and see a couple of logs and branches, best I go and ask, and here's the result, bloke's calling it fleam tree, think he might mean flame tree
First log has a close fork and a bit of a pipe from where it was felled, also a few splits, second log is better with only a punky area where a branch has been cut previously
log 1.JPGslab with splits.JPGlog2.JPGa few slabs into log 2.jpga few more slabs in.JPGside view of a few slabs in.JPG
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8th December 2012, 11:57 PM #2
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nice grain
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9th December 2012, 08:50 AM #3
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Gorgeous. I have a flame tree. Just showed the swmbo your grain and she said it was very pretty. Asked her if we could cut ours down and she gave me a death stare.
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9th December 2012, 08:53 AM #4
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Flame or Neem tree which ever very nice
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9th December 2012, 10:34 AM #5
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9th December 2012, 11:49 AM #6
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What he
did!!! gorgeous grain.
Doubt it's a flame tree. Brachychitons tend to be very fibrous.
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9th December 2012, 11:53 AM #7
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Originally Posted by two40
I am close to bi-lingual in body language. That was a no!
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9th December 2012, 11:59 AM #8
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[QUOTE=pjt;1584131] bloke's calling it fleam tree, think he might mean flame tree
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Fleam? Not a Kiwi?
Could it be an Illawarra Flame tree? If so it is a member of the Kurrajong family. The timber should be very light weight and probably coarse grained. Probably not highly regarded normally, although your log shows nice grain.
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9th December 2012, 12:08 PM #9
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Not Flame Tree
George, you would be disappointed if you did cut down your Flame Tree, because this is not it and Flame Tree timber is not very desirable. Originally Posted by two40
This one looks like Flea Tree (Albizia lebbeck).
Now Flame Tree (Brachychiton acerifolius), which should have a brilliant display right now, yields a lightweight, pale, featureless timber. I've read that it is a good carving timber, but when we cut down some largish ones here they oozed copious amounts of thick jelly from under the bark and that was not going anywhere near my bandsaw.
Edit: Bushmiller agrees. Not Flame Tree. He posted while I was composing this.Brian
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9th December 2012, 11:24 PM #10
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The flowers are about 1" round fuzzy shape, yellow, leaves are typical legume, I'll grab some pics and see if we can come up with a definate ID
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9th December 2012, 11:38 PM #11
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Timber looks like Raintree, but flowers and leaves will help identify it.
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10th December 2012, 07:52 AM #12
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Nearly went
Good job you guys said it wasn't a flame tree.
I have a fair sized Illawarra Flame tree in the backyard, and a chainsaw. The two nearly got together.
Looks like I would have been quite disappointed!
Lovely looking log, whatever you produce from it will be spectacular.
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10th December 2012, 07:57 AM #13
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I am not sure what provoked you to suggest such a thing. Cutting a tree down just to get at the grain, what an insane thing to suggest. Originally Posted by two40
You should have said our tree looks a bit sick, might need to cut it back a little.
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10th December 2012, 09:16 AM #14
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Albizia lebbek
Some pictures off the internet.
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10th December 2012, 02:19 PM #15
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I think you've got it Wizened!
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