North American in Origin
Movement - Medium
Durability - Perishable
Treatability - Moderately resistant
Workability - Works moderately well except in harder samples, finishes well, requires pre-boring.
Uses - Ladders, Tool handles, oars, poles, sports goods, gymnasium equipment, coffins, garden furniture, boat building, vehicles, artificial limbs and other purposes for which a resilient but reasonably light timber is needed.
Look - Light brown to reddish brown in colour with an indistinct sapwood and shows a strong figure due to prominent growth ring outlines.