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17th March 2021, 01:16 PM #16Senior Member
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Thanks for that Bob. So it looks like the timber is useful after all but we just never come across any so we don't know much about it. From my history lessons I remember Cook getting all excited about the timber possibly being used for ship's masts but that they turned out to be unsuitable so the Brits had to go back to using Pine from the Baltic states or somewhere like that. Apart from that, no further info.
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7th April 2021, 10:02 PM #19GOLD MEMBER
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Franco
Paul,
‘Franco’ is the recognised name of the author of the botanical name heterophylla. In botanical nomenclature every species has the authority for the name quoted after it. It’s not a boast but to cover the situation where different authors may have used the same epithet for different species. That sometimes happened in the 19th century.
David (botanist).
Historically, part of the motivation for the settlement of Norfolk Is was that the Brits thought that the pines would make excellent masts for their ships. However, they found the timber too brittle and prone to snapping at the branch points.
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