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Acacia melanoxylon, commonly known as the Australian blackwood, is an Acacia species native to south-eastern Australia. The species is also known as blackwood , hickory , mudgerabah , Tasmanian blackwood , or blackwood acacia .
Australian or Tasmanian, Paluma blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), a tree of eastern Australia Bombay, Malabar, Nilghiri or (East) Indian blackwood ( Dalbergia latifolia ), a timber tree of India Burmese Blackwood ( Dalbergia cultrata , Dalbergia oliveri ), trees from South China, Southeast Asia
Blackwood Australian blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon) African blackwood, mpingo (Dalbergia melanoxylon) Bloodwood (Brosimum rubescens) [3] Boxelder (Acer negundo) Boxwood, common box (Buxus sempervirens) Brazilian walnut (Ocotea porosa) Brazilwood (Caesalpinia echinata) Buckeye, Horse-chestnut (Aesculus) Horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)
Species of ebony include Diospyros ebenum (Ceylon ebony), native to southern India and Sri Lanka; D. crassiflora (Gabon ebony), native to western Africa; D. humilis (Queensland ebony), native to Queensland, the Northern Territory, New Guinea and Timor; and D. celebica (Sulawesi ebony), native to Indonesia and prized for its luxuriant, multi-colored wood grain.
Sandalwood is often cited as one of the most expensive woods in the world, along with African blackwood, pink ivory, agarwood and ebony. [22] [23] Sandalwood has historically been an important tree in the development of the political economy of the Pacific. Prior to colonization in the region, the sandalwood tree was a marker of status, rank ...
TIL Tasmanian Devil's give birth to between 30 and 40 offsprings but the mother only has four teats. The first four to attach to teats survive, the others perish. Image credits: Potatoe_expert
Tasmanite, or Tasmanian amber (in the original sense of the word: “discovered in Tasmania”) — a rare regional mineraloid, a brownish-reddish fossilized organic resin from the island of Tasmania, formed in some deposits of the parent rock (tasmanite shale) and known by the same name: tasmanite.
For that reason, it’s also more expensive, ranging between $2,000 to $5,000 per tooth. Composite veneers, on the other hand, which can stain and may not last as long, will run you anywhere from ...