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its value as an ornamental. It produces a hard-wearing, creamy-white close-grained timber that is used for making musical instruments, furniture, joinery...

Wood: Very dark; sapwood yellowish white; heavy, hard, strong and very close grained. Specific gravity, 0.7908; weight of cubic foot, 49.28 lb (22.35 kg)...

hairless as the name imberbe suggests. Its heartwood is dark brown, close-grained, and very hard and heavy, as suggested by its vernacular name. The durable...

Its trunk is short and thick. The wood is dense, hard, white, and close-grained. The branches are irregular and are covered with a smooth ashen bark...

The wood is reddish brown, with paler sapwood; it is heavy, hard, and close-grained, and will take a high polish. Its specific gravity is 0.7458, with a...

fibrous. The wood is ill-smelling, dark orange brown, heavy, hard, close-grained, with a specific gravity of 0.7303. Nannyberry is native to the northeastern...

Maryland of the schooner Sultana, a replica of HMS Sultana. The heavy, close-grained yellow-orange wood is dense and prized for tool handles, treenails,...

introduced a juneberry flavored energy drink. The wood is brown, hard, close-grained, and heavy. The heartwood is reddish-brown, and the sapwood is lighter...

sp.). The wood is light brown, sapwood paler brown; heavy, hard, and close-grained. The dried roots and bark were used by Native Americans to treat skin...

"Patterson Pride". The wood is bright red brown; heavy, hard, strong, and close-grained, with a density of 0.6918. When wounded the wood turns an attractive...

The wood is light reddish brown, sapwood nearly white; heavy, hard, close-grained, with a density of 0.68. The forked twigs of witch-hazel are preferred...

order Leguminosæ, sub-order Papilionaceæ. The wood is hard, heavy, close-grained, and of a fine red colour. It is different from the white fragrant sandal-wood...

ultimately dull gray. Wood: Light brown, sapwood nearly white; heavy, hard, close-grained, very strong. Used for levers, handles of tools. Specific gravity, 0...

light brown. Wood: Brown with yellow streaks. Light, soft, brittle and close-grained. Winter buds: Terminal bud is chestnut brown, one-half to three-fourths...

tree is also used for landscaping. The wood is light, hard, and very close grained. It is not durable in contact with soil without chemical treatment....

brown, finally dark brown. Wood: Yellow to pale brown; heavy, hard, close-grained and strong. Sp. gr., 0.6278; weight of cu. ft., 39.12 lbs. Winter buds:...

prolonged by the upper lateral bud. The wood of all the species is close-grained with a satiny texture and capable of taking a fine polish; its fuel...

for European and Asian pears and as ornamental trees. Pear wood is close-grained and at least in the past was used as a specialized timber for fine furniture...

mammals frequently feed on the berries. The wood is very pale, tough, close-grained, takes a good polish, and is used for whip-handles, engraving blocks...

outer layer becomes easily separable. Wood Pale brown; light, soft, close-grained but weak. Specific gravity, 0.5451; weight of cu. ft., 33.97 lbs. Winter...