ALBIZIA (Albizia lebbeck)
Nom commercial
Albizia
Nom scientifique (avec auteur)
Albizia lebbeck (L.) Benth.
Famille
LEGUMINOSAE
Noms communs (pays)
Ye-ho-shu; Womens tongue; Womans tongue tree; Vaghe; Vagei; Vaga; Tinia; Tama-kai; Sirsul; Sirisha; Siris tree; Siris; Sirin; Sirai; Samkesar; Pruek; Pedda duchirram; Mara; Mai-kokko; Lega; Lebbeck; Kinhi; Kat vaghe; Kat vage; Kal baghi; Indian albizzia; Hirih; Harreri; Gokiru; Garso; Gachoda; Frywood; East Indian walnut; Dormilon; Dirasana; Darshana; Chinchula; Chichola; Cabello de venus; Beymada; Bengha; Barba de caballero; Algarrobo de olor; Acacia amarilla; Phruek (Thailand); Kokko (France); Langil (Philippines); Tarisi (Indonesia); Oriang (Malaysia); Kokko (Myanmar); Chres (Cambodia); Kokko (Cambodia); Ka `se (Laos); Cha kham (Thailand); Kitoke (Indonesia); H[owj]p hoan (Vietnam); S[os]ng r[aaj]n (Vietnam); Suek (Thailand); Tekik (Indonesia)
Synonymes du nom scientifique (avec auteurs)
Mimosa speciosa Jacq.; Mimosa lebbek Forssk.; Mimosa lebbeck L.; Inga leucoxylon Hassk.; Feuilleea lebbeck (L.) Kuntze; Acacia lebbeck (Jacq.) Willd.; Acacia lebbeck (L.) Willd.
DESCRIPTION DE L'ARBRE
Description botanique
It is a medium-sized tree reaching a height of 27 m, 60.5 cm in diameter under favorable conditions. The crown is usually very wide. It grows quite well in dry areas.
Habitat naturel
Albizia trees are described as a pioneer species in open, secondary or primary deciduous or monsoon forest and savanna and scrub vegetation.
Répartition naturelle
It is probably original to tropical mainland Asia, but it is planted and naturalized throughout the tropics as an ornamental and for shade.
IDENTIFICATION DU BOIS
Description anatomique du bois
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.
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Vue macroscopique du bois (plan radiale)
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Vue microscopique d'une section transversale du bois
Disponibilité
Statut CITES
Unrestricted
DESCRIPTION GÉNÉRALE DU BOIS
Teinte
The heartwood is pale brown to dark reddish-brown or golden-brown, sharply demarcated from the white to straw-colored sapwood.
Index de Teinte (1 = Noir, 7 = Jaune clair)
4
Grain
The grain is sometimes straight but usually interlocked or wavy.
Texture
The texture is moderately fine to moderately coarse.
Durabilité naturelle
The wood is non-durable to durable, and is resistant to dry-wood termites but the sapwood is susceptible to Lyctus.
Index de durabilité naturelle (1 = Très élevée, 7 = Très faible)
6
Résistance à l'imprégnation
The sapwood is easy to preserve with water soluble products, the heartwood is untreatable.
PROPRIÉTÉS PHYSIQUES DU BOIS
Densité basale ou gravité spécifique (poids anhydre/vol. saturé) (g/cm³)
0.58
Densité sèche à l'air (poids et volume à 12%TH) (g/cm³)
0.63
Retrait tangentiel total (saturé à 0%TH) (%)
5.9
Retrait radial total (saturé à 0%TH) (%)
3.0
Calendrier de séchage en séchoir recommandé
JP-24; UK-E; US-T6-D2
Ratio de stabilité dimensionnelle (% retrait tangentiel total/% retrait radial total)
2.0
PROPRIÉTÉS CHIMIQUES DU BOIS
PROPRIÉTÉS MÉCANIQUES DU BOIS
Résistance à la flexion (module de rupture_MOR) 12%TH (kgf/cm²)
1045
Rigidité (module d'élasticité_ MOE) 12%TH (kgf/cm²)
144501
Résistance à la compression parallèle à la fibre 12%TH (kgf/cm²)
667
Résistance au cisaillement (radial) 12%TH (kgf/cm²)
173
Dureté Janka (latérale) 12%TH (kgf)
602
Dureté Janka (extrémités) 12%TH (kgf)
737
OUVRABILITÉ
Coupe de placage de déroulage
This species is reported to have good characteristics for lamination.
Placage tranche
This species is reported to have good characteristics for lamination.
Usinage
Machining of this species is fair to difficult.
Rabotage
The wood tends to pick up in planing. The cutting angle should not exceed 20 degrees.
Moulurage
The wood tends to pick up in molding. The cutting angle should not exceed 20 degrees.
Tournage
30
Clouage
Nailing is reported as easy.
Finissage
It has a good finishing.
Compatibilité avec outils manuels
This species has a fair response to hand tools.
UTILISATIONS
UTILISATIONS FINALES (RÉSUMÉ)
HOUSING GENERAL, beams, flooring, frames, panelling, shutter boards, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, Decorative veneer, TURNING, BENDING, tennis rackets, SPORTS, TOOLS, agricultural tools, CONTAINERS, cooperage, truck bodies, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, boats, boat oars, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts, matches, wheel, moldings
MEUBLES ET M. DE RANGEMENT
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
Pouters
- 11 - Prospect: The wood database
Planchers
- 14 - Handbook of Hardwoods
Cadres
- 16 - Woods of the World
Panneaux
- 18 - W3TROPICOS Missouri Botanical Garden
Volets
- 20 - Prospect: The wood database
MEUBLES ET M. DE RANGEMENT
- 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
PANNEAUX ET PLACAGE
- 25 - Directory of Timber Trade Malaysia
Placage tranché
- 28 - Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forest of Fiji
Tournage
- 30 - Embassy of Honduras in Japan
Résistance à la flexion
- 35 - Embassy of Myanmar in Japan
Raquettes de tennis
- 37 - Annual Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation 1998-ITTO
SPORTS
- 38 - Annual Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation 1998-ITTO
OUTILS
- 42 - Utilización Industrial de Nuevas Especies Forestales en el Perú.
Outils_agric
- 44 - Atlas of Peruvian Woods
CONTENANTS
- 50 - Properties of imported tropical woods
Tonnellerie
- 51 - Recopilacion de propiedades mecanicas de maderas creciendo en Chile
Carros_camion
- 53 - Timbers of the New World
CONSTRUCTION NAVALE
- 55 - Tropical Timber Atlas of Latin America
Navires
- 56 - Manual de Identificación de Especies Forestales de la Subregión Andina.
Navires_rames
- 60 - Amazonian Timbers, Characteristics and Utilization Volume II; Curuá-Una Experimental Forest Station
AUTRES ET INSTRUMENTS DE MUSIQUE
- 63 - Madeiras do Brazil II
Artisanat
- 66 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VII. Caracteristicas anatomicas. propiedades fisicomecanicas, de secado, y tratabilidad de la madera juvenil de Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav. Oken.)
Allumette
- 71 - Proprietes physiques et mecaniques des bois tropicaux, premier supplement
Roués
- 75 - Tropenholzer
Moulures
- 79 - Padronização da Nomenclatura Comercial Brasileira das Madeiras Tropicais Amazônicas, Sugestão
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