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BALOBO (Diplodiscus paniculatus)

Trade Name

BALOBO

Scientific Name

Diplodiscus paniculatus Turcz.

Family

Tiliacea

Description Of The Tree

Botanical Description

Medium size tree; height up to 20 m, DBH up to 60 cm; bole short, cylindrical, crooked, tapering; crown irregular in shape, buttress high.

Wood Identification

Anatomic Description Of Wood

Wood diffuse porous. Vessels solitary and in short radial multiples. Tyloses common. Tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100 micras or less (very small). Simple perforation plates. Vessel-ray pits larger than the intervessel pits. Axial parenchyma in continuous tangential lines (included in reticulate and scalariform). Ray width 1 to 3 cells. Rays storied.

Availability

Cites Status

Unrestricted

General Wood Description

Color

Sapwood is not marked off from heartwood , which is grayish or pale reddish brown

COLOR INDEX (1=Black, 7=Light yellow,white)

4

Grain

grain straight

Texture

texture moderately fine, hard and heavy

Natural Durability

Non- durable 1 to 2.5 years.

Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)

5

Resistance To Impregnation

Easy to treat.

Wood Physical Properties

Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)

0.63

Wood Chemical Properties

Wood Mechanical Properties

Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)

812

Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)

310

Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)

93

Janka hardness (side) 12%MC (kgf)

616

Workability

Sawing

Easy to saw

Machining

very good machining property

Finishing

Fair

REFERENCED USES

End Uses Summary

HOUSING GENERAL, boards, frames, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, cabinets, SPORTS, bowling polo balls, TOOLS, tool handles, agricultural tools, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, pencil, yoke, door core, moldings

General Housing
  • 10 - Silica in Timbers
Boards
  • 13 - Dry kiln schedules for commercial woods. Temperate and tropical. Section III. Latin American (Mexico, Central, and South America) Woods–Conventional Temperatures
Frames
  • 16 - Woods of the World
Furniture Cabinets
  • 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
Cabinet
  • 24 - Empire Timbers
Balls Bowling Polo
  • 40 - Internet
Tools
  • 42 - Utilización Industrial de Nuevas Especies Forestales en el Perú.
Tool Handles
  • 43 - Maderas de Bolivia (Características y Usos de 55 Maderas Tropicales)
Agricultural Tools
  • 44 - Atlas of Peruvian Woods
Pencils
  • 67 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VIII, Calophyllum brasilense, Couratari panamensis, Dendropanax arboreum y Bombacopsis sessilis
Yokes
  • 74 - World Timbers, Vol.2, North and South America
Door Cores
  • 76 - Descripción General y Anatómica de 105 Maderas del Grupo Andino.
Molding
  • 79 - Padronização da Nomenclatura Comercial Brasileira das Madeiras Tropicais Amazônicas, Sugestão

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