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Grows as a large bush in the bush country in nth Australia.Carissa spinarum part of the Apocynaceae family. Indiginous called the Pink Conkerberry for obvious reason.
It fruits and multiplies by layering forming clumps of trees. Covered in thorns,my mate who has just retired from gathering (he is just a bit younger than me,i was born in 1934).
One of the first ,most impressive timbers for me in the 1980,s. White Ants in profusion and coming out of a nasty drought makes this timber rarer than ever.The ants are very aggressive in the nth of this country. Add to the thorns snakes use the clumps for their own so gathering can be a bloody,unpleasant task. My mate lies flat out cuts at the base and pulls with his truck.
Aboriginals call it a bush plum ,it has small plum like fruit.To get enough solid timber to cut across grain happens and when it does magic appears.
Kind regards Peter.
It fruits and multiplies by layering forming clumps of trees. Covered in thorns,my mate who has just retired from gathering (he is just a bit younger than me,i was born in 1934).
One of the first ,most impressive timbers for me in the 1980,s. White Ants in profusion and coming out of a nasty drought makes this timber rarer than ever.The ants are very aggressive in the nth of this country. Add to the thorns snakes use the clumps for their own so gathering can be a bloody,unpleasant task. My mate lies flat out cuts at the base and pulls with his truck.
Aboriginals call it a bush plum ,it has small plum like fruit.To get enough solid timber to cut across grain happens and when it does magic appears.
Kind regards Peter.