Brown quandong

• Medium-size hardwood with buttressed, straight trunk.
• Bark is grey or brownish.
• Bark is slightly longitudinally wrinkled with brown-coloured pustules in the wrinkles.

• E. ruminatus occurs in rainforest from Mackay to Atherton.
• E. coorangooloo occurs only in dry rainforests in North Queensland.

Colour

• Heartwood is pale brown, may be tinged grey, and may have darker stripes.
• Sapwood is creamy white.

Grain

• Often interlocked, producing a ribbon figure (pattern) on the radial surface.
• Texture is moderately fine and even.

Construction

• Linings.
• Flooring.
• General building framing.

Decorative

• Veneer.
• Turnery.
• Joinery.
• Mouldings.

Others

• Plywood.
• Brushbacks.
• Furniture and cabinet work.
• Shingles.
• Planking of racing skiffs and racing sculls.
• Historically used for light aircraft parts.

• Density: E. ruminatus—560kg/m³ and E. coorangaloo—610kg/m³ at 12% moisture content; about 1.6 to 1.8m³ of seasoned sawn timber per tonne.
• Strength groups: E. ruminatus and E. coorangaloo (S6) unseasoned; (SD7) seasoned.
• Stress grades: E. ruminatus and E. coorangaloo F4, F5, F7, F8 (unseasoned) F5, F7, F8, F11 (seasoned), when visually stress-graded according to AS 2082—2000, Timber—Hardwood—Visually stress-graded for structural purposes.
• Joint groups: Elaeocarpus ruminatus JD4 seasoned, E. coorangooloo JD3 seasoned.
• Shrinkage to 12% MC: not available.
• Unit shrinkage: not available.
• Durability above-ground: Class 4 (life expectancy less than 7 years).
• Durability in-ground: Class 4 (life expectancy less than 5 years).
• Lyctine susceptibility: untreated sapwood susceptible to lyctine borer attack.
• Termite resistance: not resistant.
• Preservation: sapwood impregnates with preservative.
• Seasoning: seasons well.
• Hardness: E. ruminatus is soft (rated 5 on a 6-class scale) and E. coorangooloo is firm (rated 4 on a 6-class scale) to indent and work with hand tools.
• Machining: easy to work, cuts cleanly and dresses with a fine finish.
• Fixing: holds nails and screws well.
• Gluing: glues well.
• Finishing: readily accepts paint, stain and polish.

General characteristics

• Sapwood: creamy-white.
• Heartwood: pale straw colour with grey streaks.
• Texture: moderately fine and uniform, straight grain, soft to cut.

Wood structure

• Vessels: medium, radial multiples of 2–4 cells with a few solitary, uniform distribution.
• Parenchyma (soft tissue): visible only as fine terminal bands.
• Rays: 2 distinct widths—moderate and fine.

Other features

• Burning splinter test: wood burns to a grey-buff ash.

• Boland, DJ, Brooker, MIH, Chippendale, GM, Hall, N, Hyland, BPM, Johnston, RD, Kleinig, DA and Turner, JD 2006, Forest trees of Australia, 5th ed., CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia.
• Bootle, K 2005, Wood in Australia: Types, properties and uses, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, Sydney.
• Ilic, J 1991, CSIRO atlas of hardwoods, Crawford House Press, Bathurst, Australia.
• Queensland Government, DAF 2018, Construction timbers in Queensland: properties and specifications for satisfactory performance of construction timbers in Queensland. Class 1 and Class 10 buildings, Books 1 & 2, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Brisbane.
• Standards Australia, 2000, AS 2082—2000: Timber—Hardwood—Visually stress-graded for structural purposes, Standards Australia International, Strathfield, NSW.