Timber.
— Of a brownish colour, hard, heavy and close-grained.
Yappunya, or Yappundya, is a very useful timber for shafts, undercarriages of drays and waggons, and any heavy work; also good for house-blocks and posts. Some posts I know of have been used about forty years in a stockyard, being once shifted when about twenty years in first yard, and at the present time quite sound. It is a very close-grained wood, and will not break, but splinters. It is hard to get straight, as it grows very crooked. A good firewood, as it burns away to ash and leaves no charcoal. I have a picture-frame made from ring kappundya, which is very much admired. (R.J. Dalton, Wanaaring)."It is the toughest timber of the district; you cannot break it. It is used for buggy-shafts, &c." (A. Murphy, then on Paroo.)
"A valuable and durable building and fencing timber." (A.W. Mullen.)