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Category: Timbers

18-02-2025 John Daniel Events, Timbers

Stepping Back In Time

Many years back we (the Kiama Woodcraft Group) were given a set of timber-getting posters of photos printed by the Department of State Forests. It has become a tradition to display these photos at the Kiama Woodcraft  Expo, and also at our Craft Sales and Exhibitions in the Old Fire Station Gallery.

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05-02-202305-09-2024 Ray White Timbers

Jelutong (dyera costulata)

The timber supplied for the 2023 Club Challenge is Jelutong.

Dyera costulata, the Jelutong, is a species of tree in the family Apocynaceae. It grows to approximately 60 metres (200 ft) tall with diameters of 2 metres (5 to 6 ft), or even to 80 m (260 ft) tall with diameters to 3 m (10 ft), and boles clear and straight for 30 m (90 ft).

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01-07-201605-09-2024 KWG Newsletter Timbers

Cotoneaster (cotoneaster glaucophyllus)

Cotoneaster, a once prized garden shrub/tree, now declared a noxious weed in Australia because of invasiveness in the bush, is a native of China, the Himalayas and temperate Asia, Nth. Africa and Europe.

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