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Thread: Yellow fiddle wood
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20th September 2006, 06:13 PM #1Senior Member
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Yellow fiddle wood
Has anyone heard of this timber?
Seems I have some planted on my property.
Cheers
Dave
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20th September 2006, 07:09 PM #2
Do the trees look anything like this:
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20th September 2006, 07:31 PM #3Senior Member
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No, I think thats Red fiddle wood
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See if it fruits yellow fiddles, could be a good cash crop. Might need to plant some cat gut creeper though.
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Could it be Fiddlewood, Citharexylum spinosum, native to West Indies?
Bright green foliage turning a pink/orange colour in spring. It would be semi-deciduous in your area. New branch growth is initially square in section.
Has been fairly popular as an ornamental in warm areas, but generally too large for suburban yards.Brian
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21st September 2006, 12:14 PM #8
Also a real pest as far as the roots getting into drains and dropping lots of leaves & flowers. Very popular ornimental in the 70 & 80's but a bit out of favour now.
I cant find anythink about the trimber quality but you can't judge it by its common name, there are more fiddlewoods than you can poke a horse haired bow at. Might be time to experiment.
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22nd September 2006, 01:18 AM #10
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What type of plants do you propogate? Hardwoods/softwoods ?
I'm looking for quite a few for farm Forestry. Damien.
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Hi, Damien
Haven't looked in here for a couple of days. Actually got three whole days in the shed. Then footy semis at night.
Sorry to leave your question hanging. Will send a PM right away.Brian
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25th September 2006, 08:22 PM #12Intermediate Member
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Hi Dave, fiddlewood is a tropical timber, uses include furniture, tool handles, generally pale yellow with a fine interwoven grain
cheers, M
ps check out website
http://www.ecologic.org/downloads/tr...0fiddlewood%22wine, women and wood.......just get better
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26th September 2006, 12:37 AM #13
Yellow fiddle wood
The fiddlewood grows well even down here in South Australia. In Elizabeth some 30 or 40 years back, it must have been a popular craze growing them. Now, they are dissappearing because they have reached up to the highest point of most houses, and clogged the gutters, deigning them to the MackAxe.
The one that lives next door to me is going to be pruned down so I was told just today, so I will try to do my first ever, timber drying effort.Buzza.
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I've used a bit of fiddlewood. Its medium weight, dries well, interesting dark line just under the surface. It has a most obnoxious smell when being worked. Not a wood I would ever seek out.
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