Victorian Ash / Tasmanian Oak Wood Floors / Eucalyptus Wood Flooring

Victorina Ash - Tasmanian Oak Exotic Wood Flooring species from Australia

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Victorian Ash / Tasmanian Oak Wood Flooring

Country origin: Australia - on Tasmania & in the State of Victoria

Description: Tasmanian Oak / Victorian Ash wood floors are a straw to tan colored wood, all of which is rift sawn, and is similar in appearance to straight grain American Oak.
Color Range: Tasmanian Oak / Victorian Ash, depending on the areas it is sourced from, can have a medium high degree of color variation from a pale straw color, some with pinkish highlights, through to tan colors and some medium gray/brown colors. Some color/species selected can range from the straw to tan tones with some pinkish highlights.
Color Change: Tasmanian Oak / Victorian Ash over time undergoes a slight degree of color change with a muting of the overall color variation and an ambering of the straw colors to a slightly darker tan.
Botanical name: Eucalyptus, regnans / obliqua / delegatensis
Hardness: 1010 as compared to: Red oak- 1260 & N maple- 1450 (Janka chart)

The name Tasmanian Oak was originally used by early European timber workers who believed the eucalypts showed the same strength as the English Oak.

Tasmanian Oak Hardwood Flooring Species Information More facts: Eucalypts are light demanding and grow best where they are not overshadowed. Regeneration occurs after fire, and seedlings establish best on bare mineral soil in the absence of leaf litter. In Tasmania, eucalypts may live for 400 years or more. True forest giants they can attain heights of 320 feet, but average 245 feet with average diameters of 8 feet

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Victorian Ash / Tasmanian Oak Wood Flooring

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