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Copies may be made of the InsideWood data and the images for nonprofit purposes for your own use or use within your organization, e.g. for teaching or to help with a research project. In all cases, please acknowledge the source of the data and images. Copying or redistributing the data and images in any manner for personal or corporate gain is strictly prohibited. Processing and redistributing large amounts of InsideWood content for presentation on alternate web sites or in publications may not be done without written permission.

Images are copyright of their creator; the photographer and their home institution should be acknowledged. For other purposes, e.g., in publications such as manuscripts, textbooks, CDs, or on-line publications, permission for use needs to be obtained. A link to the creator's institutional webpage accompanies the thumbnails in the description pages, which should allow you to make contact.

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InsideWood. 2004-onwards. Published on the Internet. http://insidewood.lib.ncsu.edu/search [date of accession].

also please cite:

   Wheeler, E.A. 2011. InsideWood – A Web Resource For Hardwood Identification. IAWA Journal 32(2): 199-211. PDF
   Wheeler, E.A., P.E. Gasson, & P. Baas. 2020. Using The InsideWood Web Site: Potentials And Pitfalls. IAWA Journal 41 (4): 412-462. PDF

If you've found this web site useful, please e-mail the InsideWood curator. We'd like to know how InsideWood is being used. If you have cited InsideWood in a publication, please send a pdf that reference. This will help to document that the site has value and to help insure its continued public availabilty

You can support InsideWood by buying the 2023 Calendar "InsideWood. Plants With A Past." Each month features a different fossil wood locality, family, or genus with photomicrographs to illustrate distinctive features and gives dates for Arbor Days around the world.

Elisabeth Wheeler, on behalf of InsideWood participants