At 03:48 PM 2/20/2004 -0600, Steve wrote:
I have some rosybloom crabs that seem to produce rock rather than wood. The
wood is dense and reddish.
Several of the red-fleshed crabs in my collection also have red/purple wood - Winter Red Flesh & Almata, don't recall exactly about some of the others.
Vic Caron sent me some wood from a seedling of Hampshire that she's growing out, and it's got the darkest purple wood I've ever seen - looks like you squashed a pokeberry on it.
I think I discussed this with Del at some time in the past, and he indicated that the pigment in those woods is not particularly stable, but I can't swear that I didn't misunderstand/misinterpret him.
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