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Tamarix aphylla

wm460

Grand Master
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Mar 16, 2013
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Location
Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia.
First Name
Mark
A mate was fencing and this tree was in the way so he bought a piece around to me, after sitting in the front yard for about six months I bought it around to the shed and cut it up and turned a couple of bowls,it was very soft. I needed windscreen wipers on my safety glass as there was so much liquid spraying out of it.
After rough turning this one I put it in a plastic bag and shove under my bench.
Fast forward a few years.........
Some thing rolled off the back of my bench, while hunting for it I came across a few plastic bags full of black mold.
I decided against binning it and turned it,now it is rock hard, finished it with Lemon oil.

 

clumsysod

GOBBY GIT
Graduate Member
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Apr 7, 2013
Posts
687
Location
Grantham
Cor I will go hunting weeds if they come out like that mate.
I don't suppose for one minute we have weeds like that here.
 

Jimjam66

Chief Battonager
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Location
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Very nice weed, mate. The weeds that grew around were I grew up were the type you smoked! A fine vintage, too, you can buy Durban Poison in all the finest tearooms in Amsterdam. :ciggrin:
 
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