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Bintangor
Calophyllum rigidum Miq.
GUTTIFERAE
Bintangor (Malaysia); Bintangur (Indonesia)
Calophyllum kunstleri King
A medium-sized tree up to 25 m tall, but occasionally up to 35 m, with bole up to 45 cm in diameter, without buttresses.
C. rigidum is not common and occurs scattered. It grows in well-drained dipterocarp forest, but also in swamps and heath forest-like vegetation, up to 600 m altitude.
Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Bangka, Belitung and south-western Kalimantan and Sarawak (Borneo).
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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. Occasionally 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 is yellow-brown with a pink tinge and well defined from the heartwood, which is red-, pink- or orange-brown.
Interlocked, spiral or wavy
Moderately coarse to coarse, and uneven.
Present
Moderately durable under exposed condition.
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Silica Content: Not present.
Vary from poor to moderately resistant.
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0.97
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Ease of Drying: Offers no difficulty in seasoning, if care fully stacked under cover. Can be klinseassoned without difficulty
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Low
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Good
None, since non-siliceous.
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Good
Easy
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Easy
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Good
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Red meranti
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