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Has anyone seen the Heartwood of Condalia Hookeri?

daniscool said:
Rhamnus species have the same endgrain. It is quite special wouldn’t you agree?
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Some Rhamnus do, not all.
JR Parks said:
Ok. So tomorrow must mean 5 months (at least in dog years). But here is end grain of Condalia h. This sample comes from the King Ranch in south Texas. End grain and then side grain with some interesting spalting -still hard as a rock.

In regards to gum bumelia I think it has some of the most interesting end grain. Jim
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Well, Thanks. That matches well with my sample's end grain. My sample came out of a 5" round. Had no dark heartwood. Mine looks to have 16 to 18 growth rings over 3 inches of width. Thanks.
 
JR Parks said:
Ok. So tomorrow must mean 5 months (at least in dog years). But here is end grain of Condalia h. This sample comes from the King Ranch in south Texas. End grain and then side grain with some interesting spalting -still hard as a rock.

In regards to gum bumelia I think it has some of the most interesting end grain. Jim
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There you go with the King Ranch again. Happy to report that finally - after 69 years of wanting to - got to visit the King Ranch this past Friday. Of course we were just tourists and only got to be in and around the visitor's center. Got to see that and what used to be Texas A&I (now TAMU-Kingsville) for the first time. Always wanted to visit the ranch, and would certainly like to tour it more, but Dad was getting tired. We used to fish the shores of the ranch at the Laguna Madre. Some of our favorite flats! But was always told that the ranch had cameras set up and did not like people walking ashore!
 
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They look less triangular than in my buckthorn. But I see what you mean.
 
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phinds said:
No, they do not, SOME of them do, but not all of them.

buckthorn


No, not particularly. There are other woods, NOT in the Rhamnus genus, or even the Rhamnaceae family, that have the same end grain. For example:

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You misunderstand somewhat what I meant with special. Also I accept having been wrong that all rhamnus species have this endgrain formation. I have not seen all of them and it was a scientifically unfounded statement. With it being special I was talking about it being nice to look at unlike some more boring species like clear meranti shorea.spp. I was not saying that no other species has that formation. I am in no way qualified to say something of that magnitude. Moreover the condalia hookerii blank in this thread displayed the same endgrain formation proving my knowledge of other species with this formation.
 
daniscool said:
You misunderstand somewhat what I meant with special. Also I accept having been wrong that all rhamnus species have this endgrain formation. I have not seen all of them and it was a scientifically unfounded statement. With it being special I was talking about it being nice to look at unlike some more boring species like clear meranti shorea.spp. I was not saying that no other species has that formation. I am in no way qualified to say something of that magnitude. Moreover the condalia hookerii blank in this thread displayed the same endgrain formation proving my knowledge of other species with this formation.
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Fair enough.
 
JR Parks said:
Ok. So tomorrow must mean 5 months (at least in dog years). But here is end grain of Condalia h. This sample comes from the King Ranch in south Texas. End grain and then side grain with some interesting spalting -still hard as a rock.

In regards to gum bumelia I think it has some of the most interesting end grain. Jim
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Is Condolia h. as hard and heavy as, for example, desert ironwood? Very neat wood.

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Grant,
‘don’t know the sg but I would say on par with DI. I know the a fingernail can’t make any dent. And probably the the old proverbial cat can’t scratch it. It is in the buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae)
You piqued my interest so I had to find out - since it is a small non commercial wood it was hard to find any reference online to its sg. So I pulled out my Robert A Vines Texas tree bible and sure enough sg listed at 1.20. Jim

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JR Parks said:
Grant,
‘don’t know the sg but I would say on par with DI. I know the a fingernail can’t make any dent. And probably the the old proverbial cat can’t scratch it. It is in the buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae)
You piqued my interest so I had to find out - since it is a small non commercial wood it was hard to find any reference online to its sg. So I pulled out my Robert A Vines Texas tree bible and sure enough sg listed at 1.20. Jim

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Jim, VERY cool. I'd like first dibs, please, if you ever have a pen blank or two up for trade or sale!

Many thanks,

G
 
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