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BINTANGOR (Calophyllum pulcherrimum)

Trade Name

Bintangor

Scientific Name

Calophyllum pulcherrimum Wallich ex Choisy

Family

GUTTIFERAE

Common Names

Bintangor gasing (Malaysia); Mentangur perit (Indonesia); Bintangur onjem (Indonesia)

Description Of The Tree

Botanical Description

A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall with bole up to 45 m in diameter, usually without buttresses but rarely buttresses present.

Natural Habitat

The tree usually grows in mixed dipterocarp forest up to 300 m altitude.

Natural Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, southern Sumatra, Bangka, Belitung, Kalimantan and Sarawak (Borneo).

Non Timber Uses

-

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Wood Identification

Anatomic Description Of Wood

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.

Availability

Cites Status

Unrestricted

General Wood Description

Odor

-

Color

Heartwood is red-brown, pink-brown or orange-brown, while the sapwood is yellow-brown with a pink tinge and well defined.

Grain

Interlocked, spiral or wavy.

Texture

Moderately coarse to coarse, and uneven.

Luster

Exist

Natural Durability

The timber is not durable and not resistant to dry-wood termites.

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

4

Internal Growth Stresses

-

Silica Content

Silica Content: -

Resistance To Impregnation

Poor to moderately resistant.

Wood Physical Properties

Basic Density or Specific Gravity (O.D. weight/vol. green) (g/cm³)

0.54

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

0.59

Drying Defects

Ease of Drying: Air-and-klin seasoning offer no defficultry

Wood Chemical Properties

Wood Mechanical Properties

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

780

Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)

138788

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

408

Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)

71

Janka hardness (end grain) 12%MC (kgf)

445

Workability

Sawing

Moderately resistant to cut

Rotary Veneer Cutting

Good

Sliced Veneer

Good

Blunting Effect

None, since it is non siliceous.

Machining

Good

Planing

Easy to moderately difficult

Moulding

Easy

Boring

Easy, but sometimes liable to burning.

Mortising

Easy, but sometimes liable to burning.

Nailing

Moderate to poor

Gluing

Good

Sanding

Easy

Finishing

-

Staining

-

Coatings

-

Polishing

Good

Steam Bending

-

Response To Hand Tools

-

Substitute Species

Red meranti

REFERENCED USES

End Uses Summary

EXTERIOR GENERAL, bridges, poles, rails, HOUSING GENERAL, boards, flooring, parquet, frames, panelling, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, common furniture, cabinets, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, faces, Decorative veneer, PACKING, pallets, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, boats, boat deck, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, pipe, axle, moldings, particleboard

Bridges
  • 2 - 25 madeiras da amazonia de valor comercial, caracterizacao, macroscopica, usos comuns e indices qualificativos
Poles
  • 3 - Estudo dendrologico e determinacao das caracteristicas fisicas e mecanicas do genipapo (Genipa americana)
Rails
  • 6 - Physical and mechanical properties of Eucalyptus deglupta Blume grown in Costa Rica
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
Flooring
  • 14 - Handbook of Hardwoods
Parquet
  • 15 - Empire Timbers
Frames
  • 16 - Woods of the World
Paneling
  • 18 - W3TROPICOS Missouri Botanical Garden
Furniture Cabinets
  • 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
Furniture, Common
  • 23 - Handbook of Hardwoods
Cabinet
  • 24 - Empire Timbers
Panels, Veneers
  • 25 - Directory of Timber Trade Malaysia
Faces
  • 26 - Annual Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation 1998-ITTO
Decorative veneer
  • 28 - Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forest of Fiji
Pallets
  • 48 - The strength properties of timbers
Shipbuilding
  • 55 - Tropical Timber Atlas of Latin America
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.
Other & Musical Instruments
  • 63 - Madeiras do Brazil II
Pipes
  • 69 -
Axles
  • 73 - Handbook of Hardwoods
Molding
  • 79 - Padronização da Nomenclatura Comercial Brasileira das Madeiras Tropicais Amazônicas, Sugestão
Particleboard
  • 80 - Estudio Integral de la Madera para Construcción

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