The liquid absorption characteristics of 8 year old Eucalyptus pellita and E. urophylla were studied in order to gain insight into the treatability of this young, fast grown eucalypt plantation resource. The trees were grown in an experimental plantation trial near Innisfail in northeast Queensland. The study demonstrated that average sapwood basic density in young plantation grown E. pellita and E. urophylla is 24 and 31% respectively lower than the value quoted in the literature. This is not an unexpected result. This work established a link between basic density and liquid absorption highlighting the advantage of expressing retention in terms of mass/mass as opposed to mass/volume.

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