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Saturday, February 28. 2009

King Protea

That's a King Protea sitting in a water pitcher. Odd, gigantic flowers. You can read about Protea here.



Sipp says that my very old kitchen table is Chestnut, and emailed me this unstained Chestnut sample to prove it. It's the same grain:



 

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Can you grow proteas in New England?
#1 Skookumchuk on 2009-02-28 13:07 (Reply)
doubt it.
#2 Bird Dog on 2009-02-28 16:30 (Reply)
Odd yes, but not as odd as the corpse flower, which you do not want in your home.
#3 rightwingprof (Link) on 2009-02-28 17:05 (Reply)
Most Proteas are commercially grown in the Hawaiian Islands. They have a very narrow climate range in which they can be grown successfully in commercial numbers. I believe that the slopes of Hawaii's mountains offer a successful growing range. They are very strange-looking and handsome flowers. And they don't stink, like corpse flowers [Amorphophallus] do.

Marianne
#4 Marianne Matthews on 2009-02-28 19:34 (Reply)
I recognize that chestnut grain, mother's house is full of chestnut trim, staircase bannister, pocket doors, and all interior doors. It's gorgeous, very warm and homey. And her father cut some wormy chestnut from around his hunting camp, planed it and passed it off to a master clockmaker. Each of his children have a grandfathers clock made with his wood.
#5 Seppo on 2009-02-28 20:41 (Reply)
Feed me, Seymour...or was it Feed me Seymour?
#6 KRW on 2009-02-28 22:37 (Reply)
One day I hope, Americans will have plentiful chestnut lumber to plane and shape, thanks to the hard work
of the American Chestnut Foundation. About twenty years ago I had the pleasure of being part of a team that salvaged an old barn in southern Va. which proved to be about a quarter non-wormy chestnut (roughly fifteen hundred board ft., I'd guess), the rest white oak and a smattering of red oak. That chestnut (a little of which I've still got shedded) is some sweet stuff to work with.
#7 sdferr on 2009-03-01 12:17 (Reply)

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