Australian Cypress

Technical species specifications for Australian Cypress Hardwood Flooring from Fantastic Floor – Discount Exotic and Domestic Hardwood Flooring, Prefinished Solid Flooring, Unfinished Solid Flooring and Engineered Flooring.

Description

Australian cypress is mostly golden colored. It shows a high degree of variation between sapwood and heartwood. Colors range from cream colored sapwood and yellow-gold to brown heartwood. Knots accentuate the wood occasionally with darker colors still.

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Scientific Name, Other Names:

Barakula Gold, White Cypress, Cypress Pine, Callitris Glauca, Murray Pine, Murray River Cypress, Murray River Pine, Blue Cypress

About:

Our Australian Cypress is harvested from the Barakula State Forest in Western Queensland and otherwise known as “Barakula Gold” due to the superior quality of raw material. Australian Cypress is a conifer native to the eastern states of Australia. The distribution of Australian cypress is mostly in inland New South Wales and Southern Queensland. Australian cypress is logged on a sustainable basis as part of the Australian Government’s Australian Farm Forestry Program.

Applications:

flooring, furniture components, decorative veneers, and cabinetry

Janka Hardness:

1,375 pounds

Strength (MOR):

11,784 psi

Stiffness (MOE):

1,242 1000 psi

Density (KG/m3):

608

Tangential Shrinkage:

2.6 %

Radial Shrinkage:

2.4 %

Family:

Callitris

Tree Characteristics:

Australian Cypress is a small to medium-sized tree, usually growing to about 18 metres tall, but occasionally reaching 30 metres, and has a straight trunk.

Geographic Area:

Queensland and New South Wales, Australia

Color:

Heartwood ranges from honey-gold to brown with darker knots. Sapwood can be cream or straw-colored.

Photosensitivity:

Australian Cypress will exhibit an ambering effect over time, gaining more of the golden coloring it already possesses.

Luster:

Medium

Grain:

Closed and tight grain with no-thru knots

Texture:

Fine