It currently takes approximately 14-16 months from the time your application is accepted until travel to China to pick your child up. This time frame can lengthen or shorten depending on the China government's time frame in processing paper work. The process is divided into 10 phases.
The species: Eucalyptus marginata is native to south western Australia. The wood: Jarrah is a rich, reddish-brown wood with even, tight grain. It is termite resistant, water resistant, and hard.
Note from admin 31/03/2013 Abraham Woods is now understood to be correctly known as Abram Wood. The branch is Kale (and some say that this branch was from Spain rather then the English Romany branch which came into England via France in the late 1500's).