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BENTEAK (Largertroemia microcarpa)

Trade Name

benteak

Scientific Name

Largertroemia microcarpa Wight

Family

Lythraceae

Common Names

venthekku

Description Of The Tree

Botanical Description

Large, about 20-30 m in height and up to 1 10 cm in diameter. Bark yellowish-grey, smooth, exfoliating in large papery flakes.

Natural Distribution

West coast semi-evergreen, Moist teak bearing and Southern moist mixed deciduous forests

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Wood Identification

Anatomic Description Of Wood

Wood semi-ring porous and/or ring porous. Tangential diameter of vessel lumina 200 micras or more (large). Vessels in radial multiples of 2 to 4. Tyloses common. Axial parenchyma aliform. Axial parenchyma confluent. Ray width 1 to 3 cells.

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Cites Status

Unrestricted

General Wood Description

Color

Sapwood grey or pink, heartwood light reddish-brown to walnut brown.

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

6

Grain

Straight to somewhat interlocked.

Texture

texture medium.

Natural Durability

Durable, Heartwood very refractory to treatment.

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

1

Wood Physical Properties

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

0.64

Wood Chemical Properties

Wood Mechanical Properties

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

686

Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)

126500

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

474

Workability

Sawing

Sawing and machining satisfactory,

Finishing

finishes to a smooth surface and takes good polish

REFERENCED USES

End Uses Summary

EXTERIOR GENERAL, poles, stakes posts, rails, crossties, HOUSING GENERAL, frames, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, luxury furniture, cabinets, SPORTS, TOOLS, tool handles, CONTAINERS, cooperage, chemical storage, truck bodies, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, boats, boat deck, port pillar, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts, yoke, door core

Poles
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Stake Posts
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Rails
  • 6 - Physical and mechanical properties of Eucalyptus deglupta Blume grown in Costa Rica
Crossties
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Frames
  • 16 - Woods of the World
Furniture Cabinets
  • 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
Furniture, Luxury
  • 22 - Dry kiln schedules for commercial woods. Temperate and tropical. Section IV-Asian and Oceanian Woods
Cabinet
  • 24 - Empire Timbers
Sports
  • 38 - Annual Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation 1998-ITTO
Tools
  • 42 - Utilización Industrial de Nuevas Especies Forestales en el Perú.
Tool Handles
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Containers
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Cooperage
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Chemical Storage
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Truck Body
  • 53 - Timbers of the New World
Boats
  • 56 - Manual de Identificación de Especies Forestales de la Subregión Andina.
Boat Decking
  • 59 - Programa Nacional de uso Sostenible de los Bosques e Incremento a las Exportaciones.
Port Pillar
  • 61 - Manual de Diseño para Maderas del Grupo Andino
Handcraft
  • 66 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VII. Caracteristicas anatomicas. propiedades fisicomecanicas, de secado, y tratabilidad de la madera juvenil de Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav. Oken.)
Yokes
  • 74 - World Timbers, Vol.2, North and South America
Door Cores
  • 76 - Descripción General y Anatómica de 105 Maderas del Grupo Andino.

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