gopherwood , auch: gopher wood
Cladrastis lutea latin , auch: yellowwood

However, no one knows for sure what kind of tree gopherwood was.

According to the Bible, the ark was made of gopherwood.

Gopherwood is possibly the wood of a cypress tree, which was used for making ships in the Middle East.

For some it was gopherwood, for others reeds.

Gopher wood or gopherwood is a term used once in the Bible, for the substance from which Noah's ark was built.

This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood (1977)

The Free Dictionary - Gopherwood (giving a definition of Cladrastis kentukea)

After Noah had finished putting the ark together with the gopherwood boards, he had to make it watertight (so that water would not go inside the ark).

Its gopherwood timbers were blackened by a heavy coating of pitch and hardened by the petrification of the glacier which had kept it virtually intact throughout the countless centuries.

But ... VIRAG: Number two on the other hand, she of the cherry rouge and coiffeuse white, whose hair owes not a little to our tribal elixir of gopherwood, is in walking costume and tightly staysed by her sit, I should opine.

"If you like beech bark but don't have room, yellow wood, Cladrastis lutea, is a beautiful tree."

"Cladrastis lutea," Betty said.

Cladrastis lutea (Yellow wood)

Yellowwoods (Cladrastis lutea) are towering trees with sculptured slate-gray bark, panicles of fragrant white flowers in early June and golden yellow fall foliage.