Thursday, November 22, 2007

That scrub bay aroma



One of the occasional pleasures in the clearing work I do is to occasionally remove Persea humilis, the Scrub Bay. The wood is aromatic when it's cut. I wonder what it smells like when it burns.

Scrub Bay is plentiful here. It is not a listed plant, except by DACS, because of the potential for commercial exploitation, similar to Scrub Holly and Scrub Olive.

Most of the trees I'm removing along the fence line are Scrub Oak and some Bumelia sp.