corkwood


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corkwood

Herbal medicine
An Australian tree which is an important commercial source of scopolamine and atropine.
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In the West Indies, balsa is known as West Indian corkwood.
Balsa -- Lightweight Wood Has Variety of Uses
One of those assumptions has to do with density; as mentioned above, trees growing on steep, rocky, thin soil grow more slowly, causing the growth rings to be narrower and the corkwood more dense.
Sardinian corks
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Some fraction of your life, however small, owes its existence to the oxygen produced by each champion tree in the 2006 National Register of Big Trees, from the 1,321-point giant sequoia in the Sierra Nevadas of California to the 25-point corkwood of Waccasassa Bay.
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