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Title: Wood Facts A Series Monday
Post by: Dawie on February 21, 2011, 10:35:38 am

Lets go slow and fast today.
David

[color=limegreen]The world's slowest growing tree is a White Cedar {Thuja occidentalis}, located in Canada. After 155 years, it grew to a height of 4 inches and weighed only 6/10th of an ounce. The tree can be found on a cliffside in the Canadian Great Lakes area.
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~adk/oldlisteast/Spp/THOC.html

The world's fastest growing specie of tree, is the Empress Splendor Tree {Paulownia tomentosa}. This tree can grow up to 20 feet the first year!
http://www.planfor.fr/buy,princess-tree,1749,492,list,EN,492

The world's fastest recorded growth of a tree was an Albasia {Albizzia falcate} located in Sabah, Malaysia in the year 1974. It grew, 35 foot 3 inches in approximately 13 months. That would be averaging about 1 1/10 inch per day.
http://www.planfor.fr/buy,princess-tree,1749,492,list,EN,492
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Title: Re: Wood Facts A Series Monday
Post by: Marcellarius on February 21, 2011, 01:28:42 pm

nice to know.

did you noticed that both last links ar the same?

Title: Re: Wood Facts A Series Monday
Post by: Dawie on February 21, 2011, 01:54:12 pm

Nope I did not will check it out later, your namesake my nephew has a cleaning bug and wants to clean up in here.
David