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The dibber was first recorded in Roman times and has remained mostly unchanged since. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, farmers would use long-handled dibbers of metal or wood to plant crops. One person would walk with a dibber making holes, and a second person would plant seeds in each hole and fill it in.
Rosa gymnocarpa is a perennial [2] shrub growing up to 2 metres (6.6 ft) in height. Its stem is covered with long, straight spines which may or may not be abundant. The pink or white fragrant flowers are flat and open-faced with five petals in most any shade of pink to almost lavender.
The rose hip or rosehip, also called rose haw and rose hep, is the accessory fruit of the various species of rose plant. It is typically red to orange, but ranges from dark purple to black in some species. Rose hips begin to form after pollination of flowers in spring or early summer, and ripen in late summer through autumn.
The flowers are cream-colored and arrive in the spring. The seed pods are fairly straight and contain about 8 to 15 seeds each. The seeds are flat, average each about 1.5 cm (0.59 in) in diameter and have an average mass of about 0.125 g (0.0044 oz) each. The tree's wood has a density of about 840 kg/m 3 (1,420 lb/cu yd). [3]
[5] The wood is also reportedly a preferred source of cooking fuel, since it makes a hot and long-lasting fire. It is widely used there in the making of fences, since termites seem not to like it. At one time, it was used in the construction of houses , but people are finding it more difficult to find suitable trees for that purpose.
Didymocheton fraserianus is an evergreen tree that typically grows to a height of 30 m (98 ft), with a trunk up to 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) in diameter. The largest D. fraserianus in New South Wales is 56.9 m (186.7 ft) tall and has a trunk 3.55 m (11.6 ft) in diameter.
Pterocarpus indicus (commonly known as Amboyna wood, Malay padauk, Papua New Guinea rosewood, Philippine mahogany, Andaman redwood, Burmese rosewood, narra [3] (from Tagalog [4]) and asana in the Philippines, angsana, or Pashu padauk) is a species of Pterocarpus of the Sweet Pea Family (Papilionaceae) native to southeastern Asia, northern Australasia, and the western Pacific Ocean islands, in ...
There are many species in the genus Dalbergia that can be confused with Dalbergia nigra, but the latter can be recognised by its colour and resin. [4] It may also be confused with Machaerium, which has a more compact parenchyma and lack large pores. [4] Very little is known about the ecology and reproduction of the Brazilian rosewood. [3]