Species
General Characteristics Sapwood lighter-coloured but not sharply differentiated from heartwood; colour of heartwood dark-red except for the brown-black or chocolate-coloured corewood; planed surface generally not lustrous; attractively streaked on radial surface and mottled on tangential surface by the lighter-coloured wood parenchyma bands; texture moderately fine; grain spiral or shallowly interlocked; very hard and horny to cut across grain; air dry density ranging from 800 kg/m³ to 1155 kg/m³ (55 to 72 lb/ft³); moderately durable.
Structure
Growth rings ill-defined but vague concentric markings often visible.
Vessels with simple perforation; medium-sized; few or moderately few; generally in about equal proportion of solitary and radial groups of 2 to 3; evenly distributed without any clear arrangement; tyloses sparse; deposits common.
Other Features
Burning splinter test: Splinter burns to ash.
Uses
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