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Ebony
Diospyros ebenum Koenig
Ebenaceae
karimaram (India)
Small to medium, occasionally attains a height of 20 m and about 40 cm in diameter . Bark dark grey with longitudinal fissures
Sporadic in West coast semi-evergreen forest
Wood diffuse porous. Tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100 to 200 micras. Vessels in radial multiples of 2 to 4. Simple perforation plates. Vessel-ray pits similar to intervessel pits in size and shape. Occasionally tyloses common. Black-colored depos Paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. Axial parenchyma in continuous tangential lines (included in reticulate and scalariform). Occasionally prismatic crystals in chambered axial parenchyma cells and/or in fibers. Rays more than 10 per mm (abundant). Rays exclusively uniseriate. Heterogeneous rays and/or multiseriate heterogeneous rays. Prismatic crystals in the ray cells.
CITES III
Sapwood light yellowish-gray to gray, heartwood jet black.
3
Straight to somewhat irregularly wavy.
Fine
Durable, refractory to treatment.
1
1.15
8.1
4.7
1.7
1181
141300
Not difficult to saw and work.
Not difficult to saw and work.
Can be finished to a fine shiny smooth surface and takes good polish.
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