Can anyone help here. I picked this up out of some scraps at the local Woodworkers source and they said it was an Australian wood. I think it is called Paldao because it was the closest match in colors but what do you think it is. The pictures show the true grain and the color ranges from a light tan to darker streaks.
Thanks Again
Jerry
Here is what I found:
The first European settlers of Australia obviously did not have any name for a particular Australian tree and consequently tended to call them by some similarity, be it in the appearance of the trees themselves, their fruits, their wood or some other factor, to a tree from their own homeland. Often these first names have now become the common name, which can be very confusing and misleading to non-Australians.
For instance, the Quercus spp. (the northern hemisphere Oaks) and the Fraxinus spp. (the Ashes) have no indigenous representatives in Australia, although there are many Australian trees which have either Oak or Ash in their common name, indeed there is a whole group of Eucalyptus species which are called the Ash Group. Other common names include Cedar, Elm, Box, Teak, Mahogany, Box, Myrtle, Walnut, Beech, Maple, Rosewood, Poplar, Ebony and Apple.
I think it might be a Cedar.
