Thread: Another what wood is this...

Can't really help with id but it certainly looks promising for all sorts of purposes that don't include burning.

Make sure you seal the ends and stack to dry. If you could it would be worth having it cut in half to relieve some of the stresses as it dries.

looks like an acacia...nice heartwood. Should get some nice turnings / good find

Thanks for the replies.I should have mentioned the tree is deciduous so I don't have any leaves to show. I'll get some sanded items up next week which may help identify it. Cheers

looks like Arborous Gratis

Looks very much like Elm to me

Looks like a Rain tree or Albizzia to me.

A nice species name I saw recently was 'Damifino'. Seems appropriate

Cheers,
Dave

You blokes sure like to make it easy! None of the botanical features that help ID! Did it have compound leaves & winged fruits when alive? If so, I would suggest Tipuana (Tipuana tipu), - the bark & the dark heartwood look right. It's yet another botanical rabbit that has been foisted on the Brisbane environs. Its common name is "Rosewood", though not closely related to the real rosewoods (Dalbergias) as far as I know. I've eyed off a few chunks of it when some large trees were cut down at UQ, but the chippers got them first. I suspect it is pretty lively stuff from the rate at which it grows.....
Cheers,

Don't know about that IanW The bark isn't furrowed as is Tipuana is. Also when cut Tipuana bleeds a red sap and the juncture between bark and sap gets quite red.

Agree with your assessment of it as a botanical rabbit.

I picked up a few pices but the bloody stuphph split and walked everywhere. Maybe that was because they were branch bits.

Originally Posted by artme

Don't know about that IanW The bark isn't furrowed as is Tipuana is. Also when cut Tipuana bleeds a red sap and the juncture between bark and sap gets quite red.

Artme - I am never confident about id-ing from pics of bits of wood, so I'm open to any & all other suggestions!
The bark looks ok to me - it's quite variable depending on the age of the tree & where the bit was cut from. There are dozens of the damn things of all sizes, over the UQ campus, so I get to see a few (as well as the mongrel thing on the place next door that keeps trying to establish its children in my yard. ). And the wood looks dry, as if from a dead tree, so that may explain the absence of sap. But all that said, I admit it was only a guess from the appearance of the cut trunk & can't think what else looks like that round here....

On the matter of Tipuana (whether this tree is one or not),
On the Aust Govt 'weed alert' page:
http://www.weeds.gov.au/publications...rt/t-tipu.html

they say:
"Rosewood has been planted all over the world as an ornamental street tree and garden plant. It is also valued as a shade tree, a source of 'rosewood' timber and, in some circumstances, fodder for stock. In Australia it was originally planted in the 1970s in Queensland's suburban gardens and streets."

The bit about "Rosewood timber" piqued my interest, so I am still keeping my eyes open fopr a chunk to play with sometime, however, your experience with it doesn't bode well, but doesn't surprise me, either - anything that grows so prolifically is unlikely to be good!

Cheers,

Peltophorum pterocarpum. Yellow Flame or (wrongly) Yellow Poinciana

Originally Posted by Wizened of Oz

Peltophorum pterocarpum. Yellow Flame or (wrongly) Yellow Poinciana

The Poinciana and yellow flame tree I know do not have a dark hart wood like that?

Originally Posted by Rum Pig

The Poinciana and yellow flame tree I know do not have a dark hart wood like that?

Didn't think the bark looked like Peltophorum, either - there's one just outside the building I work in, just about to burst into flower. I took a good look at a couple of Tipuanas at lunchtime & I reckon the bark is identical to what is shown in the pics. Not going to argue about the colour of any sap, but the cut sections look just like the trees they took down over by the boatsheds a couple of years ago (which were definitely Tipuanas - identified to me by a botanist.)

And so it goes....

from the pics provided I'm still voting for Albizia albeck but we will be able to tell more when the next set of pics come out.