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26th July 2020, 11:54 AM #1
Is this English boxwood?
Should I steal this under the cover of darkness tonight?
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.
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26th July 2020, 12:49 PM #2SENIOR MEMBER
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I don't know what it is.
But I'd grab it
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26th July 2020, 12:58 PM #3Senior Member
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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.
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26th July 2020, 02:28 PM #4
I get my blacks on tonight !!
An go stealing.
Cheers Matt
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It's not stealing Matt, it's proper recycling! Pin the medal you're a true environmentalist.
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I think it is a pittosporum (kohuhu) Kohuhu, Black Pittosporum | Friends of the Urban Forest
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...
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27th July 2020, 08:54 AM #7
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28th July 2020, 06:49 AM #8Senior Member
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What Uncle Al said
What you say & what people hear are not always the same thing.
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28th July 2020, 09:51 AM #9
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,IW
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I agree Uncle Al
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
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