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Terpenes in aromatic cedar?
I cut some attractive slices out of a cedar that was being pruned, and stuck
them in a bag to dry slowly. (I assumed, correctly, that this wood was unlikely to rot or be damaged by bugs on damp storage.) A couple of years later, they were covered with a fur of beautiful needle-shaped crystals with little smell or taste. Any idea what these crystals might be? |
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Terpenes in aromatic cedar?
Theo (reply w/o spam) schreef
I cut some attractive slices out of a cedar that was being pruned, and stuck them in a bag to dry slowly. (I assumed, correctly, that this wood was unlikely to rot or be damaged by bugs on damp storage.) A couple of years later, they were covered with a fur of beautiful needle-shaped crystals with little smell or taste. Any idea what these crystals might be? + + + I have seen them too. Likely they occur in all Cupressaceae with heartwood. Never got round to looking up what they might be. A quick look in Hausen yields quinones &al as common in such woods, but this is an indication only. PvR |
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Terpenes in aromatic cedar?
Theo (reply w/o spam) schreef
I cut some attractive slices out of a cedar that was being pruned, and stuck them in a bag to dry slowly. (I assumed, correctly, that this wood was unlikely to rot or be damaged by bugs on damp storage.) A couple of years later, they were covered with a fur of beautiful needle-shaped crystals with little smell or taste. Any idea what these crystals might be? P van Rijckevorsel schreef I have seen them too. Likely they occur in all Cupressaceae with heartwood. Never got round to looking up what they might be. A quick look in Hausen yields quinones &al as common in such woods, but this is an indication only. PvR + + + According to the book by Frohne & Jensen the wood of Cupressaceae can have high contents of terpenes, notably Thymol and Carvacrol PvR |
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