Is this English boxwood?

[Simplicity]

Should I steal this under the cover of darkness tonight?

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These are waiting hard rubbish collection on a nature strip.
The large rounds are only about the size of a large coffee cup.
Still big enough for tool making stuff.

Cheers Matt.

[mattocks]

I don't know what it is.
But I'd grab it

[Emit]

There is the European Boxwood and Topiary Society which has a number of pictures of Boxwood.
The struggle is matching things from a computer screen to real life though...
I've grab sidewalk timber before just to see what it is like.
As Mattocks has stated...Just grab it.

[Simplicity]

I get my blacks on tonight !!
An go stealing.

Cheers Matt

[aldav]

It's not stealing Matt, it's proper recycling! Pin the medal you're a true environmentalist. :2tsup:

[Uncle Al]

I think it is a pittosporum (kohuhu) Kohuhu, Black Pittosporum | Friends of the Urban Forest (https://www.fuf.net/tree/kohuhu-black-pittosporum/)
There is one growing in next doors front yard, let me know if the timber looks to be a bit useful and I might do a midnight raid!

Alan...

[Simplicity]

I think it is a pittosporum (kohuhu) Kohuhu, Black Pittosporum | Friends of the Urban Forest (https://www.fuf.net/tree/kohuhu-black-pittosporum/)
There is one growing in next doors front yard, let me know if the timber looks to be a bit useful and I might do a midnight raid!

Alan...

Alan
I suggest you harvest next doors tree, in the spirt of Research an development in regards to suitable tool making timbers.


Cheers Matt.
They understand [emoji6]

[Old-Biker-UK]

What Uncle Al said

[IanW]

Well I don't think those leaves, nor the bark, look anything like those shown for P. tenuifolium on the site Uncle Al linked to!

Buxus is a variable plant, there seems to be a lot of different cultivars, with some variations in leaf shap/size. However, if you type "Buxus, leaves" into your search engine you'll get lots of pics, none of which look remotely like the ones Matt illustrates. None of the pics I found for Buxus have that very prominent reticulated venation, which must be a useful clue to anyone who knows their botany....

Cheers,

[Euge]

I think it is a pittosporum (kohuhu) Kohuhu, Black Pittosporum | Friends of the Urban Forest (https://www.fuf.net/tree/kohuhu-black-pittosporum/)
There is one growing in next doors front yard, let me know if the timber looks to be a bit useful and I might do a midnight raid!

Alan...


I agree Uncle Al :2tsup: :)

So... if its a pittosporum the wood when dry will be much less dense than Boxwood (Buxus sp.) which is exceeding slow growing (in Europe anyway) and rarely found above 3-4" dia. Boxwood is pale yellow in colour and quite dense. Pittosporum in contrast is a fine, almost cream-white wood of medium density and fine grain.

Eugene