Four men standing by the huge trunk of an Australian mountain ash tree (Eucalyptus species). Wood engraving, c. 1867.

Date:
[1867-1875]
Reference:
20953i
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The timber of the Australian mountain ash is used as wood pulp and the trunk yields a red kino used as astringents in medicine and in tanning

Publication/Creation

[London], [1867-1875]

Physical description

1 print : wood engraving

Lettering

The giant gum-tree

Reference

Wellcome Collection 20953i

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