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Duboisia myoporoides, or corkwood, is a shrub or tree native to high-rainfall areas on the margins of rainforest in eastern Australia.It has a thick and corky bark. [1] The leaves are obovate to elliptic in shape, 4–15 cm long and 1–4 cm wide.
Duboisia (commonly called corkwood tree) [citation needed] is a genus of small perennial shrubs and trees that grow up to 14 metres (46 feet) tall, with extremely light wood and a thick corky bark. There are four species; all occur in Australia , and one also occurs in New Caledonia .
Corkwood is a common name of a number of plants: Ackama paniculosa, a soft barked corkwood from Australia in the coachwood family; Annona glabra, found in the West Indies; Commiphora angolensis (sand corkwood), a shrub mainly in Angola and Namibia; Commiphora saxicola (rock corkwood), a shrub endemic to Namibia; Duboisia, a genus with species ...
Leitneria floridana (corkwood), the sole species in the genus Leitneria, is a deciduous dioecious shrub or small tree, found only in the southern United States states of Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Missouri and Texas. It grows at damp habitats, mostly in coastal areas and has extremely light wood with a density less than that of cork. It ...
The bark is a fawnish grey, relatively soft and corky. Large trees sometimes shortly flanged but not buttressed at the base. The trunk is straight and cylindrical. Leaves are alternate, simple and entire. 5 to 8 cm long, drawn out to a blunt point. Mid-green on the leaf top, but paler green beneath. Leaf stalks 5 to 10 mm.
A medicine developed by Aboriginal peoples of the eastern states of Australia, from the soft corkwood tree, or Duboisia myoporoides, was used by the Allies in World War II to stop soldiers getting seasick when they sailed across the English Channel on their way to liberate France and defeat Hitler during the Invasion of Normandy. It had been ...
The good news for the milkvetch plant is that they usually need wildfire to sprout — meaning dormant seeds now have a massive new habitat for a new crop of the rare shrub.
A bush medicine developed by Aboriginal peoples of the eastern states of Australia from the soft corkwood tree (Duboisia myoporoides) was used by the Allies in World War II to stop soldiers from getting seasick when they sailed across the English Channel on their way to France during the Invasion of Normandy.
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