Thread: Anyone identify this wood

Coolibah.

I'll second that.

Coolibah it is then:



Common Name: COOLIBAH

Botanical Name: Eucalyptus microtheca F.Muell.

Height to: 20 m. Diameter to: 1.0 m.

Wood Colour: Red to dark brown.

Weight (seasoned 12% m.c.) approx: 1150 kg/cu.m.

Texture: Hard, strong, interlocked grain.

Comments:
This famous tree of Banjo Patterson's "Waltzing Matilda" inhabits the arid and semi-arid open woodland zones of Australia. It grows on seasonally inundated country around swamps, billabongs and lagoons and in open belts along watercourses, preferring a clay subsoil.

The spread of the tree is often as great as its height, providing much needed good shade in these hot areas. Its bark can vary between rough and grey to almost black in colour in some; to deeply furrowed in older trees; to smooth, whitish to pale grey and powdery in others. These differences can make the identification of the species a bit perplexing to the casual observer.

The common name is of Aboriginal origin but has also been known as "Yathoo" or "Callaille". Aborigenes used parts of the tree to treat snakebite and its wood is one of the hardest of the Eucalypts.

looks very much like this mallee burl too