YELLOW-WOOD, a name applied to set real timber trees and shrubs. including Ciodno tir Intro This is an uncommon leguminous tree. known in cultivation as the viretha American or Kentucky yellow-wood. and I. indigenous to the United States from ken lucky southwards. The yellow-wood attains to a height of 60 feet, with a trunk some two feet in diameter. It usually divides into two or three limbs not far from the ground, which ramify into slender and somewhat drooping branches, forming a broad, graceful head. In winter the smooth, silvery-gray bark of its main trunk and red-brown of its delicate sprays are very interesting. The limbs, how ever, are brittle and break easily. The foliage of the yellow-wood consists of light-colored, odd-pinnate leaves, turning to clear yellow in autumn; and fragrant panicles a foot or more long, of flowers, pea-like and milk-white, droop from the ends of the branches. The fruits are linear legumes. A yellow dye was made from the hard golden-tinted wood, which is used for fuel and occasionally for gun stocks. The yellow-root (q.v.) (Xanthor ritim); the Osage orange (Toxylom ponti lemon), a favorite hedge plant; Eustis, a dye stuff yielded by the wood of Chlorophora tine toria. a West Indian tree with oblong, taper pointed leaves and an edible fruit; and Scharf feria frutescens, the valuable boxwood of the West Indies, are all known as yellow-woods.
Australian yellow-woods are the Acronychia Hovea lomgipts and Xanthostnnon packyspertna; and the white teak, or Queens land (Flindersia o.rleyama). also called light yellow-wood, is a tall, slender tree with many branches. Another tree called light is the Rhus rhodamthenta. bearing large red flowers, and growing to 80 feet in ha' ht. It is native to Queensland, and yields a fine cabinet-wood, close-grained. capable of taking a fine polish, sound and durable. Natal yellow-wood is a tree of about the same height (Podocarpus eiottgata), with a close-grained wood which will not bear exposure out of doors, but is extensively used for furniture and interior house-building. The bastard yellow stood of the same region is I'. pruimosa, with a tough durable wood, also used in house build ing; still another species (P. latifolia), an evergreen about 80 feet high, having an aro matic wood, is the East Indian yellow-wood. This same name is given to the satin-wood (CAJoro.rylott steiercnia). The prickly yellow wood is Zasthosylutes earitneistn (q.v.).