jarrah
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jarrah (countable and uncountable, plural jarrahs)
- Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., a eucalypt tree occurring in the southwest of Western Australia, or its wood.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Broken-Link Handicap’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 112:
- The walls were colonial ramparts—logs of jarrah spiked into masonry—with wings as strong as Church buttresses.
- 2002, Richard Frankham, David A. Briscoe, Jonathan D. Ballou, Karina H. McInnes, Introduction to Conservation Genetics, page 103
- In contrast, resistance to root rot fungus in jarrah trees has a significant heritability (Box 5.1), so jarrahs can evolve to resist the introduced dieback.
- 2009, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, p. 8:
- Right here. At the foot of an enormous old-growth jarrah.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Broken-Link Handicap’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 112:
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Further reading
- Eucalyptus marginata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Eucalyptus marginata on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- jarrah at USDA Plants database
- Category:Eucalyptus marginata on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons