A name given in Australia to the wood of two rhamnaceous trees, Red Ash Alphitonia excelsa, and Victorian Hazel Pomaderris apetala.
1866. Treas. Bot., 918. P. apetala forms a small tree in New South Wales, and yields a hard close-grained wood there called Cooper’s wood.
1884. in Miller, Plant-n. [in both senses].
