I went to a home show last weekend. One vendor had furniture and mantels made from Alligator Juniper. He had photos of a tree that was about 4 to 5 foot in diameter. The wood had a nice grain, somewhat light brown in color. Has anyone heard of this wood. I live in North Central Texas. Thanks.
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Google is your friend. Some high resolution photos at the third link.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22alligator+juniper%22
http://images.google.com/images?q=%22alligator+juniper%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/archives/forestry/hough/WoodsPart_X.html
Chuck,
We have a house in New Mexico and this particular tree grows there in the higher altitudes. Our house is at 6,000 feet and we have some that grow on our lot . I have also heard it referred to as Arizona Juniper. The wood is beautiful with coloration running from pink to rose. It is difficult to get since the planks tend to be short, the tress are not plentiful and cost of milling is very high compared to production hardwoods. A local woodworker milled several trees and built some custom cabinets for a Sante Fe style spec house; the wood worked beautifully with this particular architecture.
Doug
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