White stringybark

• Medium forest tree, grows 25–35m high.
• Stem grows 0.7–1.0m diameter.
• Trunk is generally straight with good form.
• Crown is well branched and moderately dense.
• Bark is typically thick, stringy and persistent (doesn’t shed) up to the small branches.
• Bark is longitudinally fissured, and grey to brown.

• Common coastal eucalypt and some adjacent tablelands of New South Wales, extending to Yarraman, Queensland.
• Isolated stands in the Carnarvon Range area and the Blackdown Tableland.
• Found on elevated sites in North Queensland from Mt Spec to the Windsor Tableland and north to Cooktown.
• Sawn timber is available.

Colour

• Heartwood is mainly light brown and occasionally pale pink.
• Sapwood is paler but not sharply different.

Grain

• Generally medium texture and uniform but sometimes interlocked.
• Interlocked grain may produce attractive figure (pattern).

• Engineering: sawn timber used to construct wharves and bridges, railway sleepers, cross arms, poles, piles, mining timbers.
• Construction: sawn timber in general house framing, cladding, internal and external flooring, linings and joinery; also fencing, landscaping and retaining walls.
• Decorative: outdoor furniture, turnery.
• Others: boat building (keel and framing components, planking), coach, vehicle and carriage building, structural plywood.

• Density: 1010kg/m³ at 12% moisture content; about 1.0m³ of seasoned sawn timber per tonne.
• Strength groups: S3 unseasoned, SD3 seasoned.
• Stress grades: F8, F11, F14, F17 (unseasoned); F14, F17, F22, F27 (seasoned) when visually stress-graded according to AS 2082-2000: Timber—Hardwood—Visually stress-graded hardwood for structural purposes.
• Joint groups: J2 unseasoned, JD1 seasoned.
• Shrinkage to 12% MC: 7.1% (tangential), 3.2% (radial).
• Unit shrinkage: 0.36% (tangential), 0.25% (radial)—these values apply to timber reconditioned after seasoning.
• Durability above-ground: Class 2 (life expectancy 15–40 years).
• Durability in-ground: Class 2 (life expectancy 15–25 years).
• Lyctine susceptibility: sapwood not susceptible to lyctid borer attack.
• Termite resistance: not resistant.
• Preservation: sapwood readily impregnates with preservative  but penetration of heartwood is negligible using available commercial processes.
• Seasoning: satisfactorily dries using conventional air and kiln seasoning.
• Hardness: very hard (rated 1 on a 6-class scale) to indent and working with hand tools.
• Machining: machines and turns well.
• Fixing: no difficulty using standard fittings and fastenings.
• Gluing: as with most high-density species, machine and prepare surface immediately before gluing.
• Finishing: readily accepts paint, stain and polish.

General characteristics

• Sapwood: very pale brown, lighter than heartwood.
• Heartwood: light brown, occasionally pale pink.
• Texture: medium texture and uniform; grain sometimes interlocked.

Wood structure

• Vessels: solitary, small to medium and numerous; evenly distributed; abundant tyloses; obvious vessel lines on longitudinal surfaces.
• Parenchyma (soft tissue): none visible.
• Rays: very fine, barely visible under a lens.

Other features

• Burning splinter test: match-size splinter burns to charcoal leaving no 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