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

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[1867-1875]
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20952i
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Three men standing by the huge trunk of an Australian mountain ash tree (Eucalyptus amygdalina), in a forest. 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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A big gum tree - Eucalyptus amygdalina

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Wellcome Collection 20952i

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Bears monogram that could be read as WJL, possibly of William James Linton (1812-1897)

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