beef-tree

Updated: May 8, 2025

The tree there resembles our common mountain fir: it is exactly like it in the bark; but it is called by the settlers, the she-oak. I reckon it to be the beef-tree, for it has its appearance when cut up, is hard, and takes a beautiful polish.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844