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   Jon_Arno | Feb 28, 2002 07:36pm | #1

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   Tamarack, I think the article you are referring to was "When Woods Fight Back." Can't remember the issue, but it was about ten years ago. If you can't find it, E-mail me and I'll send you a copy. Also, there was another good article on this subject in the International Wood Collectors Society (IWCS) monthly publication: World of Wood. It was in the March 2000 issue. I could send you a copy of it as well.

   ...But anyway, the most important commercial timber with similar chemistry to poison ivy is Silky-oak (AKA: lacewood, Gravillea robusta and the closely related Cardwellia sublimis, both are members of the Proteaceae family from Australia.) Poison ivy is in the Anacardiaceae family and some other members of this family also have the same or similar toxic chemistry.

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   Steve_Schefer | Feb 28, 2002 07:45pm | #2

   *Tamarack, try this website:http://www.mendelu.cz/~horacek/toxic.htmor do a search on toxic woods. I believe there is a US Gov maybe U.S. Forrest Service site that list them and I think CAL OSHA has it also or maybe a link to the gov site.

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   ben_malamed | Feb 28, 2002 09:15pm | #3

   *You might try Issue 114, Sept 1995.

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   Mike_Taylor1 | Feb 28, 2002 09:48pm | #4

   *Search throught this site. Has gobs of info.http://bodd.cf.ac.uk/index.html

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   tamarack_ | Mar 01, 2002 02:19am | #5

   *Thanks Gentlemen!The article was indeed in the September/October 1995 issue (and I only read two or three other articles enroute to finding it). The wood I was thinking of is Goncalo Alves, which is in the same family as poison ivy. Because I have violent reactions to poison ivy, I'm going to steer clear of both Goncalo Alves and Lacewood.