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Re: Strip: Albus wood strips
By:graybeard
Date: 4/8/2010, 1:59 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Albus wood strips (Mike Bielski)

: BTW- They sell poplar here as poplar. I wonder if it's more
: expensive if you call it Pacific Albus?

: m

Round here, most of the poplar has a greenish cast, with purple heartwood. So I guess it's also more expensive if it isn't colorful.

Found this:
http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/meet_the_pacific_albus_tree_harbinger_of_green_forestry/C35/L35/

Quote:
The pale wood is “Pacific albus.” Never heard of it? Neither has anyone else. It’s a made-up name, incorporating the Latin for the common poplar, that fast-growing, energetically suckering tree you see standing in tall rows along the edges of rural roads and prairie farmyards. Poplar isn’t a traditional source of lumber.

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riston -- 4/7/2010, 9:48 pm
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riston -- 4/8/2010, 4:12 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 4/8/2010, 6:15 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 4/11/2010, 12:51 am
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Mike -- 4/8/2010, 8:38 pm
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Paul Montgomery -- 4/9/2010, 8:24 am
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Allan -- 4/8/2010, 5:01 pm
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dhwdaniels -- 4/8/2010, 6:02 pm
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Charlie -- 4/8/2010, 9:16 pm
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dhwdaniels -- 4/9/2010, 6:25 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 4/8/2010, 8:19 pm
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Ken Brunton -- 4/8/2010, 12:28 pm
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Mike Savage -- 4/8/2010, 2:20 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 4/8/2010, 9:24 am
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Bill Hamm -- 4/11/2010, 12:45 am
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Mike Bielski -- 4/8/2010, 9:26 am
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graybeard -- 4/8/2010, 1:59 pm
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Jay Babina -- 4/8/2010, 7:54 am
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Paul Montgomery -- 4/8/2010, 8:33 am
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Allan -- 4/8/2010, 2:02 am