Category :    Light Hardwoods

Species

General Characteristics

Sap wood is whitish yellow and is moderately distinct from the bean wood, deep brown and exposure. Planed surface with lustre, texture is moderately coarse and even: grain interlocked; air dry density ranging from 640 to 770 kg/m3 (40 to 48 ft3); the timber is not durable in contact with the ground or exposed situations. Which is light golden brown and darkening 10 a

Structure

Growth rings present. Vessels with simple perforation; medium-sized or moderately large; few or moder¬ately few in number, predominantly solitary; the others in radial or oblique pairs and radial groups of up to 4; unevenly distributed in groups of 3 to 4 vessels in groups or in short oblique lines; tyloses present; deposit absent. Wood parenchyma of both apomchcal and paratrachcal types; paratracheal parenchyma in incomplete vastccntric, aliform or confluent, with the alifrom type predominant; apotrachcal type as concentric bands containing resin canals, occasional narrow, terminal bands, diffuse strands and narrow or broad discontinuous tangential layers. Rays tine or medium-si/.cd, visible or distinct to the naked eye on cross section; not conspicuous on a radial surface. Ripple marks absent. Intercellular canals Vertical canals of the concentric type filled with white resin.

Other Features

Burning splinter test : Splinter bums to charcoal with sparkling sound except the species of/*, stellata which bums to ash.

Uses