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Bintangor
Calophyllum papuanum Lauterb.
GUTTIFERAE
Calophyllum (Papua New Guinea); Calophyllum (Indonesia)
A medium-sized to large, probably dioecious tree up to 40 m tall with bole up to 90 cm in diameter, usually without buttresses but sometimes with buttresses.
C. papuanum is usually a canopy tree of lowland or montane forest. It sometimes grows in swampy forest and occurs up tu 1850 m altitude.
The Moluccas (Morotai) and New Guinea.
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Vessels per mm2 6 to 10 (medium). Wood diffuse porous. Vessels exclusively solitary (over 90%). Occasionally tyloses common. Tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100 to 150 micras (small). Vessel-ray pits coarse in marginal rows. Vascular/vasicentric tracheides Axial parenchyma apparent with the naked eye. Axial parenchyma in thick bands. Occasionally prismatic crystals in non-chambered axial parenchyma cells. Axial parenchyma bands more than 3 cells wide. Rays more than 10 per mm (abundant). Occasionally rays exclusively uniseriate. Occasionally prismatic crystals in the ray cells. Body ray cells procumbent with mostly 2 to 4 rows of upright and/or square marginal cells (Kribs-II). Non-septate fibers. Fibers with simple to minutely bordered pits.
Unrestricted
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Sapwood pinkish-red, while heartwood reddish-brown.
Interlocked, spiral and wavy.
Moderately coarse to coarse, and uneven.
Present
Moderately durable under exposed condition.
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Silica Content: Almost zero
Poor to moderately resistant
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Ease of Drying: Seasons well when open stacked after conversion .
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Low to moderate
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None, since it is non-siliceous
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Dark-colored mahogany and/or dark red meranti
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