Thread: A wood id quiz, just for fun

Originally Posted by apricotripper

so what did I learn Ian ? And how is it related to oranutangs ?

Jake, I don't know what you learned, only you know that, but the object of the exercise was simply to make the point that it is difficult to impossible to identify a wood accurately with limited information.

I don't think orangutans live in Leucaenas, so they probably have no interest whatever, in the tree or how you might identify it....

Botanical names are not everyone's cup of tea, but they do have the value of being unique to each species, unlike 'common' names, that get applied to many, often completely unrelated, species. In one locality where everyone knows what's what, no problem, but confusion soon sets in when you go outside your own base.

And yep, there's nothing like personal experience to tell you what you need to know about a wood.

Cheers,