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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
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