timber ID

[pjt]

A timber ID please, a gum/euc local to a couple hrs drive south of Rocky and more probly, machined OK, minimal patches of tearout, not much smell, 1inch wide white sapwood, no borers or bugs that I could see, fairly hard/dense, red to very dark red, I'd say it moves a bit during drying as these boards where a bit rugged looking, not much end splitting but stable once dried....
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Thanks
Pete

[artme]

No help but it looks a bit like a couple of trees we had growing at the school where I taught. No one could ever identify them for me.

Nice looking timber.

[crebra]

I am not sure but could be Mackay Cedar, which used to be called albizzia toona. If it is, it only occurs in small patches near Mackay, I tried to collect seeds to grow it but apparently only flowers every 7 years.

[woodturner777]

Looks to me very much like She Oak.

A timber ID please, a gum/euc local to a couple hrs drive south of Rocky and more probly, machined OK, minimal patches of tearout, not much smell, 1inch wide white sapwood, no borers or bugs that I could see, fairly hard/dense, red to very dark red, I'd say it moves a bit during drying as these boards where a bit rugged looking, not much end splitting but stable once dried....
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Thanks
Pete

[funkychicken]

It's Brush Box Lophostemon Confertus. No doubt about it

[InterTD6]

Its the wrong bark for brushbox, BB has scaly bark on lower tree with smooth bark on upper, not a stringy type bark like in pic. Very hard to tell what it is from the amount of material shown
regards inter

[pjt]

Thanks to everyone for replying, I'll take a few more and see if I can get a better/bigger pic showing more face
Pete

[artme]

NOT Brush box. Totally wrong bark!!!

Any chance of foliage pics???

[Phoracantha]

I agree that the pic shows bark that is wrong for brush box. The bark is exactly right for swamp box Lophostemon suaveolens.

[chowcini]

turpentine or bloodwood?? need to see more of the outer tree

[charlsie]

is there much gum vein in the timber? bark looks like messmate but wrong colour timber

[pjt]

I wouldn't have said BB either, I have some of that, (have been told it's BB, I think I got an ID here a while back as well) and the as yet unkown is not BB, the unkown has no smell or very little when machining it and no gum viens, it has a fair bit of distortion around any knots or similiar faults and I got it as boards so no leaves/flowers etc.
BB has a destinctive mineral oil smell a bit like diff oil and creates way more fine dust, my experience with it anyway...
Took some more pics, tried to load them but I think no.2 kid has done something to camera/cable/computer will look into it...
Pete

[Tony Morton]

Hi Pete

What about satinea turpentine ,bark is turpentine type and right for that area.

Cheers Tony

[Stopper]

I agree. The bark is wrong for bloodwood and brush box. I think it's terpentine.

cheers
Steve

[artme]

Could be Turpentine, although most Turp. I have dealt with is darker than that.

Bark matches Turp. Pity about no leaves and , particularly, fruit as that would settle the case.