Make thee an Arke of Gopher-wood

This has turned out to be a really informative (for me) exchange but I hope not too far from plant topics.  But just to respond to Anthony; my good old OED now tells me that gopher-wood (their hyphen) is applied in the U.S. to the yellow-wood (Cladrastis tinctoria).  However, Thomas Aird (Poetical Works  pub.1856) wrote: "There to a pillar of black gopher-wood/ Brought near, a fettered prisoner he stood"

Yellow or black then?  Or perhaps C. tinctoria is in fact black and it's called yellow-wood just to confuse us.

Actually, I would go for (go-fer?) Ryan's theory about a possible scribal error.   Anthony likes these esoteric scrambles after dubious translations, don't you Anthony?

Joan
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