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ALBIZIA (Albizia chinensis)
Nombre comercial
Albizia
Nombre científico (con autor)
Albizia chinensis (Osbeck) Merr.
Familia
LEGUMINOSAE
Nombres Comunes
Cham (Vietnam); Saan kham (Thailand); Silk tree; Cham (Vietnam); Kaang luang (Thailand); Unik (Philippines); Kantingen (Philippines); Hinagit (Philippines); Sengon (Indonesia); Sengghung (Indonesia); Jeungjing (Indonesia)
Nombres científicos sinónimos (con autores)
Mimosa chinensis Osbeck; Albizia stipulata (DC.) Boivin; Albizia marginata (Lamk) Merr.; Acacia stipulata DC.
DESCRIPCIÓN DEL ÁRBOL
Descripción botánica
Albizia presents small to fairly large trees, from 35 up to 50 meters. Usually branchless for up to 20 meters, reaching diameters of 100 to 150 cm.
Hábitat natural
Albizia trees are described as a pioneer species in open, secondary or primary deciduous or monsoon forest and savanna and scrub vegetation.
IDENTIFICACIÓN DE LA MADERA
Descripción anatómica de la madera
Wood diffuse porous. Occasionally vessels with colored deposits. Vestured pits. Vessels per mm2 less than 6 (rare). Simple perforation plates. Vessel-ray pits similar to intervessel pits in size and shape. Intervessel pits medium, 7 to 10 micras. Intervessel pit Axial parenchyma in marginal or in seemingly marginal bands. Apotracheal axial parenchyma diffuse and/or diffuse in aggregates. Occasionally paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. Axial parenchyma aliform. Axial parenchyma confluent. Prismati 4 to 10 rays per mm (medium). Larger rays more than 4 seriate. Homogeneous rays and/or sub-homogeneous rays (all ray cells procumbent). Occasionally septate fibers present. Fibers very thick walled. Fibers with simple to minutely bordered pits.
Disponibilidad
Status de protección por CITES
Unrestricted
DESCRIPCIÓN GENERAL DE LA MADERA
Color
Heartwood pale brown to dark reddish-brown or golden-brown with paler streaks and bands, sharply demarcated from the white to straw-colored sometimes very wide sapwood.
Indice de Color (1= Negro, violeta; 7= Amarillo claro, blanco)
5
Grano
Grain sometimes straight but usually interlocked or wavy.
Veta
Texture moderately fine to moderately coarse and even.
Durabilidad Natural
The wood is non-durable to durable, and is resistant to dry-wood termites but the sapwood is susceptible to Lyctus.
Indice de Durabilidad Natural (1=Muy alta, 7=Muy baja)
6
Dificultad para impregnar
The heartwood is extremely resistant to impregnation, the sapwood is permeable.
PROPIEDADES FÍSICAS DE LA MADERA
Densidad Básica (Peso anhidro/Vol. saturado) (g/cm³)
0.34
Densidad seca al aire (Peso y volúmen CH12%) (g/cm³)
0.36
Contracción Tangencial Total (Saturado hasta anhidro) (%)
6.1
Contracción Radial Total (Saturado hasta anhidro) (%)
2.5
Calendario de Secado
JP-24
Estabilidad Dimensional (Contracción Total Tangencial %/Contracción Total Radial %)
2.5
PROPIEDADES QUÍMICAS DE LA MADERA
PROPIEDADES MECÁNICAS DE LA MADERA
Resistencia a flexión (Módulo de ruptura) CH12% (kgf/cm²)
540
Rigidez (Módulo de elasticidad) CH12% (kgf/cm²)
90000
Resistencia a la compresión paralela a la fibra CH12% (kgf/cm²)
245
TRABAJABILIDAD
Aserrado
The response of this wood in sawing is fair to difficult.
Corte de chapa rotativa
The wood is suitable for the production of veneer, sometimes even for decorative veneer.
Chapa tranchada
The wood is suitable for the production of veneer, sometimes even for decorative veneer.
Maquinado general
The wood is somewhat difficult to work with machine tools.
Cepillado
The wood tends to pick up in planing.
Moldurado
The wood tends to pick up in molding.
Torneado
30
Clavado
Nailing properties are fair.
Acabado
It has a good finishing.
Sacar lustre
The wood polishes excellently.
Facilidad para herramientas manuales
This species has a fair response to hand tools.
Usos Reportados
USOS FINALES (RESUMEN)
HOUSING GENERAL, flooring, shutter boards, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, TURNING, SPORTS, TOOLS, PACKING, CONTAINERS, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, boats, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, matches, paper
VIVIENDA GENERAL
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
Pisos
- 14 - Handbook of Hardwoods
Persianas
- 20 - Prospect: The wood database
MUEBLES Y GABINETES
- 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
TABLEROS Y CHAPAS
- 25 - Directory of Timber Trade Malaysia
Torneado
- 30 - Embassy of Honduras in Japan
IMPLEMENTOS DEPORTIVOS
- 38 - Annual Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation 1998-ITTO
HERRAMIENTAS
- 42 - Utilización Industrial de Nuevas Especies Forestales en el Perú.
PALLETS_EMBALAJES
- 45 - Recopilación y Análisis de Estudios Tecnológicos de Maderas Peruanas
CONTENEDORES
- 50 - Properties of imported tropical woods
CONSTRUCCIÓN NAVAL
- 55 - Tropical Timber Atlas of Latin America
Botes
- 56 - Manual de Identificación de Especies Forestales de la Subregión Andina.
OTROS E INSTRUMENTOS MUSICALES
- 63 - Madeiras do Brazil II
Cerillas
- 71 - Proprietes physiques et mecaniques des bois tropicaux, premier supplement
Pulpa_papel
- 82 - Compilation of Data on the Mechanical Properties of Foreign woods (Part 2) Central and South America.
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