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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 4:42 am    Post subject: What wood is this vessel... Reply with quote
...made from. It stands approximately 24 inches high.



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 7:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Looks like Norfolk Island Pine to me.

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 9:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Not Norfolk Island Pine Bob...

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hey Ralph,

I think that Bob was close, because the blue stain is typical of a fungal infection of pines. I'll guess Ponderosa pine, because they're a big yellow pine.

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
No, but it is a conifer...

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ralph Laughton wrote:
No, but it is a conifer...

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I was going to say aracantha(sp) or monkey puzzle but the branches are usually spaced more regularly around the trunk. Oh-what the hey ... I'll guess monkey puzzle anyway.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ralph,

It looks like knotty oregon pine.

Very cool looking vase BTW


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 5:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cypress?

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Scots pine?

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 7:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Looks like you get the soggy point tonight Dennis!

Araucaria araucana (Monkey-puzzle) is what it is.

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ralph Laughton wrote:
...Araucaria araucana ...


Thanks for the correction on the botanical name, Ralph. I fell heir to a short log of the stuff some time back and got interested in it's family, ermmm tree. From what I read it's one of if not the most prehistoric tree species growing today.

Rather interesting story about how it came to be known as 'Monkey Puzzle' as well.
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