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Is marri timber good for furniture?
The finished timber is honey-coloured with a distinctive vein structure. Marri is popularly used for household and fine furniture and makes attractive flooring. It can also be used for general construction, handles, oars and sporting equipment, while preservative treated marri is useful for piles, poles and posts.
Is marri timber expensive?
The texture of the timber is coarse and rough, but it’s an easy timber to work, and the surfaces can be sanded to an extremely smooth finish. Marri furniture is extremely affordable, and it has a very different feel to many other modern furniture products.
Is marri timber a hardwood?
Marri is a hardwood. They are commonly found in the southwest of Australia. They are also called Red Gums.
What is marri wood?
MARRI WOOD is a bloodwood native to Western Australia. Common names include Marri and Port Gregory Gum and a long standing usage has been Red Gum due to the red gum effusions often found on trunks. It is distinctive among bloodwoods for its very large buds and fruit (colloquially “honky nuts” in Western Australia).
How can you tell the difference between jarri and Marri?
The Jarrah has small, rounded gumnuts, while the Marri has large, urn shaped nuts, called ‘honky nuts’ in Western Australia. The final clue lies in the flowers, with the Jarrah flower caps being long and narrow with a large peak.
Where do Marri trees grow?
Western Australia
Marri occurs in a range of habitats. It is an important component of both the Jarrah and Karri forests of Western Australia. It also occurs on the coastal plain on a range of soils. The nuts are large and carry rather large seeds that provide an important food source for some species of parrots including cockatoos.
What does Marri wood look like?
Appearance. Marri’s yellow to pale brown heartwood and paler to white sapwood contrast beautifully with the dark red gum that features on the tree’s trunk. It has a coarse but even texture with slightly interlocked grain. The finished timber is honey-coloured with a distinctive vein structure.
Is Marri a eucalyptus?
Originally described as a species of Eucalyptus, it was separated to a genus allied with the bloodwoods and their relations. Corymbia calophylla is commonly known as marri, a name derived from the Noongar language of Southwest Australia region, in preference to the ambiguous red gum.
What do Marri trees look like?
With brown to grey-brown rough bark arranged in a tessellating pattern, the Marri exudes a red or rust coloured sap. The common name Marri is a Noongar word for blood, which has been used to describe the sap that weeps from wounds in the bark.
Is Marri tree native to Australia?
Corymbia calophylla is a large and common tree in the southwest of Australia. Originally described as a species of Eucalyptus, it was separated to a genus allied with the bloodwoods and their relations….Corymbia calophylla.
| Marri | |
|---|---|
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Corymbia |
Where does Marri grow?
Marri occurs in a range of habitats. It is an important component of both the Jarrah and Karri forests of Western Australia. It also occurs on the coastal plain on a range of soils. The nuts are large and carry rather large seeds that provide an important food source for some species of parrots including cockatoos.
Is Marri native to Australia?
What kind of furniture can marri timber be used for?
Marri timber is commonly used in the production of household furniture. The distinctive honey-coloured vein structure is unlike any other Australian hardwood. It can also be used in construction while preservative-treated material is useful for piles, poles and posts.
Where does Jarrah and marri furniture come from?
Marri furniture individually designed and custom made – Marri and Jarrah furniture specialist. Handcrafted Marri and Jarrah furniture and kitchens all made in Fremantle by local owner and artisan Clint Clarke.
Where is Clint Marri Woodworks in Fremantle WA?
Our woodworks is only 5 minutes’ drive from our gallery in South Fremantle. You are more than welcome to visit Clint during the week. Some of the local timbers we use are – Marri, Jarrah, She oak, Blackbutt, Wandoo and Tuart. Clint is at the Gallery every Sunday.