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31st December 2018, 11:29 AM #16
I agree, bark wise and the crotch figuring, it looks pretty much like the one growing in my front yard. Photos of the cut timber strongly suggest Macadamia as does it propensity to split badly. Nice and pinkish when fresh cut and mellows to a silver brown over time, very strong medullary feature - all hallmarks of macadamia.
I'd say someone has confused logs & tree ID's from different sources.Mobyturns
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31st December 2018, 12:07 PM #17
Firstly your pics were quite reasonable Feckit...fairly clear and concise IMO...never was there a question regarding identity of the leaves,yes they were most likely from a Macaranga tanarius specimen(s)...you need not of conducted further research,as it was already done for you ...the timber itself conclusively pointed to a completely different Genera/species...definitely Proteaceae family and whilst it may not be one of the Macadamia species the timber is VERY similar (more so than Macaranga tanarius)...a number of variables needed for prudent identification of trees include leaves/bark/wood/provenance/flower(s)/soil type/terrain elevation and historical data...a process of elimination...MM
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31st December 2018, 12:20 PM #18
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Unsurprisingly MM, you are correct. Having now checked the end grain I can confirm that the timber example shown is without question Macadamia.
This is the actual Big Mac I was banging on about in the first place.
M1.jpg
And;
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And a gratuitous pic of the Not Macaranga Macadamia, just because.
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Thanks for the assistance MM.
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4th January 2019, 12:59 PM #20
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