lancewood การใช้
- The black lancewood or carisiri of The Guianas is of remarkably slender form.
- Closely related is " Pseudopanax ferox ", the toothed lancewood.
- In the 1930s rods six foot six inches long were used made of hickory, bamboo, lancewood and greenheart.
- The yellow lancewood tree " Calycophyllum candididissimum ", common names lemonwood or " degame ", is from a different family ( Rubiaceae ).
- Coxella weevils are also regularly found on Chatham Island lancewood ( " Pseudopanax chathamicum " ), on which they seem to shelter but only intermittently eat.
- "A bizarre jagged gem of the forest, the lancewood's distinctive habit splits the soft forest light to stab one in the eye with an odd, unearthly beauty.
- The spell is a bat consisting of two parts : a long stick made of lancewood; and a pommel, a piece of very hard wood about long, wide and thick.
- The shafts of a carriage were called " limbers " in English dialect . " Lancewood ", a tough elastic wood of various trees, was often used especially for carriage shafts.
- Happy Valley features in the opening and closing scenes of the World War II novel'Lancewood', written by Alan Marshall, in which both penguins and cows are represented side by side on the beach.
- It occurs in a wide variety of habitats, including riparian woodlands such as lancewood . and in developed areas containing native and exotic trees and shrubs such as caravan parks, reserves, gardens, and farms and orchards.
- The island is uninhabited, and covers of predominantly steep terrain almost entirely covered in dense native beech-podocarp forest, including plants such as mistletoes and mountain lancewood, which have been decimated elsewhere by the browsing of possums.
- It is used as an alternative to lancewood and is found in tolerable abundance throughout The Guianas, and used by the Amerinds for arrow-points, as well as for spars, beams, etc . Some bowyers use this wood for making longbows.