Thread: Mahogany ???

Well I can tell you one thing - If thats Mahogany, I've been burning it the wood heater for the last 5 years.
We have both Mahogany and Ironbark on our property and that looks like Ironbark to me.

woodcutta

Southern mahogany (Eucalyptus botryoides) is good fire wood but all that bark makes a lot of ash. I imagine the more northern version is much the same.

Like to see the inside colour but it looks suspiciously like White Mahogany to me. If that's the case it's no use as firewood, it doesn't burn well.

Originally Posted by artme

Like to see the inside colour but it looks suspiciously like White Mahogany to me. If that's the case it's no use as firewood, it doesn't burn well.

Me to Arthur will try get photo's of it now it has dried a bit and been cut in half

http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/cps/rde/dp...5_ENA_HTML.htm
This is a Queensland Gov site, It says White mahogany is also called yellow and white stringy bark. Which covers 5 species, thats common names for ya.

White mahogany has only a very thin sapwood layer & similar colour to blackbutt / tallowood
regards inter

it looks like ironbark to me. there are many diferent types not jsut grey and red. ironbark like most aussie hardwoods will get bug marks under the bark but they wil not protrude into the hart wood as its to hard.

"white mahogany" is just yellow stringy bark witch is good for fence posts but by no means deserving of a mohogany tag.

i had a few swamp mahogany the bark on them was deep and fibourous like tallowwood only dark red. the bark seams to tighhtly packed on those for any kind of mahogany.

attached is a pic of teh swamp mahogany i had and a pic of the sawn wood.

Originally Posted by glenn k

http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/cps/rde/dp...5_ENA_HTML.htm
This is a Queensland Gov site, It says White mahogany is also called yellow and white stringy bark. Which covers 5 species, thats common names for ya.

A picture is worth a thousand words description sounds about right

Ok a peice went to an ex forestry fellow and he has come back with the name of the species above but calling it Iron Bark So still none the wiser

Anyway here are photo's of the grain dry and wet.

During my search for answers I found this site End Grain & Face excellent presentation and collection of woods all done in PDF's

Originally Posted by wheelinround

During my search for answers I found this site End Grain & Face excellent presentation and collection of woods all done in PDF's

If you look on page 17 of the Eastern Australian Forest Woods file you will see the file for Swamp Mahogany or Swamp Messmate - Eucalyptus robusta .
This entry isn't exactly like your wood, but remember that your wood has come from a young tree. The Forestry Dept sample that I depicted on Endgrain & Face would have probably come from a proper saw log.

I based my ID of your wood from the word Mahogany in your description, and from the appearance of the bark in the images you posted. Just get a magnifying glass or hand lens and have a close look at the end grain of your wood, and compare it with the end grain image my entry.

The Swamp Mahogany tree has thick leathery leaves, and the bark looks very robust too. Hope this helps

Originally Posted by Macropete

If you look on page 17 of the Eastern Australian Forest Woods file you will see the file for Swamp Mahogany or Swamp Messmate - Eucalyptus robusta .
This entry isn't exactly like your wood, but remember that your wood has come from a young tree. The Forestry Dept sample that I depicted on Endgrain & Face would have probably come from a proper saw log.

I based my ID of your wood from the word Mahogany in your description, and from the appearance of the bark in the images you posted. Just get a magnifying glass or hand lens and have a close look at the end grain of your wood, and compare it with the end grain image my entry.

The Swamp Mahogany tree has thick leathery leaves, and the bark looks very robust too. Hope this helps

Peter thats brilliant bark looks identical will do a close up look and see end grain. TY

The fellow who cut it is if he remembers taking his camera with him and getting some shots of whole tree and leaves.

Originally Posted by wheelinround

Peter thats brilliant bark looks identical will do a close up look and see end grain. TY

The fellow who cut it is if he remembers taking his camera with him and getting some shots of whole tree and leaves.

Nuts and buds are better for ID

Originally Posted by glenn k

Nuts and buds are better for ID

This website is just my private work Glenn, its a labour of love. Getting images of nuts and buds of just the species you want calls for persistence and a whole lot of luck.

One of these days I'll score images of nuts and buds of E robusta, but for now all I know is that the flowers are a reddish colour.

Originally Posted by Macropete

This website is just my private work Glenn, its a labour of love. Getting images of nuts and buds of just the species you want calls for persistence and a whole lot of luck.

One of these days I'll score images of nuts and buds of E robusta, but for now all I know is that the flowers are a reddish colour.

I bookmarked your page macropete thanks could be very useful. I graded a 8 x 2 I bought 2nd hand it looked like red Ironbark but I had to grade it down to unknown species because I didn't really know but F22 isn't far off F27.
Glenn