On 08/21/2015 9:33 AM, Sonny wrote:
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At the beginning of the video, that tree stump has rough-looking
bark. ...

I'm looking at the closeup at about the 2:30 mark; pretty smooth, fine
striations; not much at all like what I could find as referenced
dealbata pictures although granted virtually none I found were good
shots of other than the foliage/blooms/etc.

My guess is that the tree he uses is Blackwood/Acacia melanoxylon. ...

That was my initial thought looking at the end of the log but I don't
know anything about them other than a sample the wife brought back in a
collection she picked up of various down under woods from her trip down
there...but it's just a 1" square of a dozen or so and no other info.
Again, however, the searches I did didn't lead me to think from the
pictures I found they looked all that similar to his specimen...at that
point I hadn't actually even realized it (blackwood and several others
had heard of by common name even though know knothing about them
firsthand) were acacias...

Anyway, I'll defer to the man onsite (not to say he also _might_ be in
error or answering a different question in the comments, but it would
seem he'd be the one to know... ).

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