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alcohol ALDERSGATE STREET Alternative Names Amazonas region Anatomical Characters Authorities Autumn wood avoiding the pores Bark Beech Boulger boundary Boxwood British Guiana brown lines brownish Burns cells colour colourless commercial sources contour dark darker dense denser dull durable Ebony embers glow encircling the pores equidistant faint fissured flakes flame Forest Officer Grain ground ground-tissue Hardness Grade Heart-wood heat expels Hough 49 inch thick inconspicuous Laslett 60 Linn little variation Natural Order Need lens Nördlinger 86 numerous Physical Characters Pine Pith PLATE pore-ring pore-width potash prominent Queensland Radial Section readily visible Recorded dry-weight resin Rings sap-wood Sargent 100 scarcely shining Smell or taste Soft-tissue Solution with water Sources of Supply species specimens from commercial Surface bright Surface lustrous Synonyms Tangential Section tapering tissue traceable Transverse section tree turnery Type specimen authenticated undulating uniform Western Australia whitish Wiesner 131 Zealand zones