ticklingmedusa
12th May 2007, 06:14 PM
Here in California I bought some really nice imported burl a dealer had labeled as Mallee. Its a gorgeous natural edge bowl blank, yellow orange with lots of swirls.
Its hard and dense and I can tell already it will take several trips to the
grinder before it yields to my gouge.
My question is does mallee mean its a Eucalypt in general or a specific
tree?
Decades ago I took a landscape tree identification course and we learned
a small tree named Kruse's Mallee or Eucalyptus kruseana, which had silver-grey, roundish leaves. The botany book I carried at the time had mallee in the glossary and defined it as a thicket.
I'm wondering if its the same species.
I've probably opened another can of worms but I'm a curious seppo.
Thanks for your responses.
tm
Its hard and dense and I can tell already it will take several trips to the
grinder before it yields to my gouge.
My question is does mallee mean its a Eucalypt in general or a specific
tree?
Decades ago I took a landscape tree identification course and we learned
a small tree named Kruse's Mallee or Eucalyptus kruseana, which had silver-grey, roundish leaves. The botany book I carried at the time had mallee in the glossary and defined it as a thicket.
I'm wondering if its the same species.
I've probably opened another can of worms but I'm a curious seppo.
Thanks for your responses.
tm