Tiger Myrtle and Chrome Fountain Pen
TIGER MYRTLE - (Nothofagus cunninghamii)
Tiger Myrtle is perhaps the rarest of the Myrtle colour decorations, the “tiger stripe” of contrasting dark brown - black is caused by fungal discoloration. Tiger Myrtle is most often produced from cull trees with too much centre defect to meet pulpwood specifications. The most dominant tiger stripe is displayed in quarter sawn timber.
Myrtle is a large, spreading evergreen tree up to 40 m tall with a stem diameter between 150 and 250 cm in favourable environments, but is often a dense under-storey shrub 6–18 m high in wet eucalypt forest and at higher altitudes. The trunk is slightly buttressed, fluted and often swollen at the base, with adventitious shoots. The outer bark is brown or deep red to pink, scaly and slightly fibrous and remains attached to the tree for life.
Pen #670 was turned on 23rd October 2016 at Tixall Wide on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.
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