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

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[1867-1875]
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20950i
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Two men standing by the huge trunk of an Australian mountain ash tree (Eucalyptus amygdalina). Wood engraving, c. 1867. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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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

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[London], [1867-1875]

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1 print : wood engraving

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The giant tree of Victoria - Eucalyptus amygdalina.

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Wellcome Collection 20950i

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