Category :    Light Hardwoods

Species

General Characteristics

Sapwood not differentiated from heartwood by colour; wood cream-white; planed surface moderately lustrous; with occasional zig-zag markings on tangential surface produced by wood parenchyma bands; texture ranging from moderately fine to moder¬ately coarse; grain interlocked; soft to cut across grain; air dry density ranging from 368 to 480 kg/m³ (23 to 30 lb/ft³) averaging 464 kg/m³ (29 lb/ft³); not durable.

Structure

Growth rings absent.
Vessels with simple perforation; medium-sized; few or moderately few in number; mostly in radial multiples of 2 to 9 in a scries, the rest as solitary with occasional clusters; arrangement rather radial; tyloses and deposits absent,
Wood parenchyma apotrachcal, as irregularly spaced bands which often may be closely spaced and appear as regularly spaced bands.
Rays moderately fine, just visible to the naked eye on cross-section, not prominent on a radial surface.
Ripple marks absent.
Intercellular canals absent.
Latex traces Large radial passages which appear on tangclial faces as lens-shaped scars and arranged in whorls (as in jelulong).

Other Features

Burning splinter test: Splinter bums to ash.

Uses