| Celery Top Pine |
| Phyllocladus asplenifolius |
| other common name | |
| colour | Celery Top Pine has a pale straw colour, darkening to a beautiful gold, with age. There isan occasional hint of red. The timber has a straight, fine and even grain with a close even texture. |
| use | A sturdy versatile and durable, workable timber admired and used for its stability, finishing qualities and its light base colour. Celery top pine has been used for boat building, benchtops, flooring, decking, joinery,indoors outdoor furniture, external cladding, wall panelling, beams and poles. |
| workability | Celery Top Pine can be worked to a smooth flat surface. It planes well with the grain, drills cleanly to size, bends and turns well, and accepts paints, stains and varnishes readily. Seasoned Celery Top can be difficult to nail and may need to be predrilled. |
| durability | It is highly durable, resilient, and exhibits low shrinkage across the grain. In ground durability of heartwood is very good, generally satisfactory for internal and external use above ground. |
| availability as species | Celery Top Pine has become a special purpose timber, available at selected outlets in Tasmania and to a lesser degree in Victoria. Supplies are generally scare and available only from specialty timber suppliers. It is available as seasoned and unseasoned material. |
| origin of timber | Tasmania |
| sizes available | Seasoned and unseasoned undressed timber is sized from 25 to 300 mm. wide by 25 to 50mm. thick. Approximate maximum size available is 350 by 150mm. (most available product is less than 150mm wide and in 25 and 38mm. thicknesses.) Lengths are available up to 5400mm. long . However most production lengths are less than 3000mm. |
| strenght group uns | S4 |
| strength group s | SD5 |
| joint group uns | J3 |
| joint group | JD3 |
| density uns | 1050 kg/cu.m |
| density s | 650 kg/cu.m |
| hardness s | 5.5 approx |
| toughness uns | 15 to 25 |
| toughness s | 15 to 25 |
| tang shrinkage | 3.1 to 3.4 |
| tang move | 0.19 |
| durability class | In-ground - Class 4; Outside above ground - Class 2 |
| lyctis susceptability | Not susceptible |
| EFH ignitibility | No information |
| EFH spread of flame | No information |
| EFH smoke developed | No information |
| perform in ground | Very good |
| country of origin | Australia |
| availability ACT | Rare |
| availability NSW Urban | Rare |
| availability NSW rural | Rare |
| availability NT | Rare |
| availability SA | Rare |
| availability TAS | Limited |
| availability QLD urban | Rare |
| availability QLD rural | Rare |
| availability VIC urban | |
| availability VIC rural | |
| availability WA | Rare |
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