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BUNGUR (Lagerstroemia speciosa)

Trade Name

Bungur

Scientific Name

Lagerstroemia speciosa (L.) Pers.

Family

Lythraceae

Common Names

Ye-pyinma; Thwa-u; Thwa-mu; Tanbangau; Taman; Tabangao; Tabaek; Shem marutha; Sekre; Queens flower; Pyinma-ni; Pumaruthu; Pu maruthu; Parasabukung; Pantahaun; Pamarauagon; Pamalauagon; Pamalasagon; Nirmarud; Nir-venthekku; Nir maruthu; Nir marutha; Nabulong; Muruta; Mota bondara; Mitla; Mani-maruthu; Mani maruthu; Manaba; Makabalo; Mai-sa-hpong; Kau-ilan; Kamaungni; Kamaung; Kadali; Jarul; Intannin; Hole-dasal; Hani; Gawknguchyamang; Gara saikre; Gara; Einmwe; Eikmwe; Challa hole dasal; Bungor ayer; Bungor; Bondara; Bolashari; Batiladhan; Banang-pulo; Aropag; Ajhar; Agupanga; Adamboe; Abak; Queen of flower; Tabeck (Thailand); Banglang (Vietnam); Jarut (India); Pyinma (Myanmar); Intanin (Thailand); Chuang muu (Thailand); Pride of India; Inthanim nam (Thailand); Tabaek dam (Thailand); Bungur (Indonesia); Gawkng-uchyamang (Myanmar); Tibabah (Sabah); Bongor biru (Sarawak); Bungor raya (Malaysia); Ketangi (Indonesia); Bungur tekuyung (Indonesia); Banaba (Philippines)

Scientific Name Synonyms

Munchausia speciosa L.; Lagerstroemia flos-reginae Retz.

Description Of The Tree

Botanical Description

It is a small to medium-sized to large tree up to 40 m tall, 60 to 100 cm in diameter. The bole is commonly short, cylindrical, often fluted near the base, branchless for up to 18 m. The buttresses are inconspicuous, rounded, low and small.

Natural Habitat

Lagerstroemia speciosa is found at low to medium altitudes in secondary forests, especially along rivers.

Natural Distribution

It is distributed in South China, Indo-China, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia to the Celebes and Philippines.

Plantations Available?

This species is cultivated within its distribution of origin and also in many other tropical countries.

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Wood Identification

Anatomic Description Of Wood

Occasionally wood semi-ring porous and/or ring porous. Occasionally tangential diameter of vessel lumina 200 micras or more. Occasionally tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100 micras or less. Vestured pits. Occasionally vessels per mm2 more than 20. Occasio Occasionally paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. Occasionally axial parenchyma aliform. Axial parenchyma confluent. Two cells per parenchyma strand. 3 to 4 cells per parenchyma strand. Occasionally 5 to 8 cells per parenchyma strand. Occasi Rays exclusively uniseriate. Homogeneous rays and/or sub-homogeneous rays (all ray cells procumbent). Occasionally body ray cells procumbent with one row of upright and/or square marginal cells (Kribs-III). Septate fibers present. Fibers with simple to minutely bordered pits.

  • Wood Macro Photo Tangential Plane
  • Wood Micro Photo Of Transversal Section

Availability

Cites Status

Unrestricted

General Wood Description

Odor

It is no distinct taste and odor.

Color

The sapwood is not clearly differentiated from the heartwood, which is reddish brown.

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

4

Grain

The grain is generally straight, sometimes wavy.

Texture

The texture varies from moderately fine to moderately coarse.

Luster

The wood is described as moderate in luster.

Natural Durability

The wood is moderately durable to durable when exposed to the weather or in contact with the ground. The heartwood is resistant to very resistant to dry-wood termites.

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

4

Silica Content

Silica Content: It is non-siliceous. Silica Value: 0

Resistance To Impregnation

The heartwood is reported to be resistant to preservative treatment, but the sapwood is readily treatable.

Wood Physical Properties

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

0.59

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

0.65

Total shrinkage Tangential (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)

7.8

Total shrinkage Radial (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)

3.8

Drying Defects

Drying Defects: It is reported that during preliminary air drying surface checks usually develop.

Dimensional stability ratio (Total Tangential Shrinkage %/Total Radial Shrinkage %)

2.1

Wood Chemical Properties

Wood Mechanical Properties

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

988

Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)

104091

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

491

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

97

Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)

111

Janka hardness (side) 12%MC (kgf)

614

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

710

Workability

Sawing

Cutting behavior is reported to be easy to fair.

Rotary Veneer Cutting

It is very difficult to slice and peel, even after boiling for 48 hours.

Sliced Veneer

It is very difficult to slice and peel, even after boiling for 48 hours.

Machining

It is easy to machine.

Turning

30

Boring

Boring operations are rather difficult.

Finishing

This species is reported to give a good finish.

REFERENCED USES

End Uses Summary

HOUSING GENERAL, beams, flooring, frames, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, TURNING, cutlery, SPORTS, TOOLS, tool handles, agricultural tools, PACKING, CONTAINERS, cooperage, truck bodies, truck flooring, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, boats, boat oars, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, pencil

General Housing
  • 10 - Silica in Timbers
Beams
  • 11 - Prospect: The wood database
Flooring
  • 14 - Handbook of Hardwoods
Frames
  • 16 - Woods of the World
Furniture Cabinets
  • 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
Panels, Veneers
  • 25 - Directory of Timber Trade Malaysia
Turning
  • 30 - Embassy of Honduras in Japan
Knife Handles
  • 33 - Embassy of Gabon in Japan
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
  • 43 - Maderas de Bolivia (Características y Usos de 55 Maderas Tropicales)
Agricultural Tools
  • 44 - Atlas of Peruvian Woods
Packing
  • 45 - Recopilación y Análisis de Estudios Tecnológicos de Maderas Peruanas
Containers
  • 50 - Properties of imported tropical woods
Cooperage
  • 51 - Recopilacion de propiedades mecanicas de maderas creciendo en Chile
Truck Body
  • 53 - Timbers of the New World
Truck Flooring
  • 54 - Bulletin of the Government Forest Experiment Station N.157: Identification of Tropical Woods
Shipbuilding
  • 55 - Tropical Timber Atlas of Latin America
Boats
  • 56 - Manual de Identificación de Especies Forestales de la Subregión Andina.
Boat Oars
  • 60 - Amazonian Timbers, Characteristics and Utilization Volume II; Curuá-Una Experimental Forest Station
Pencils
  • 67 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VIII, Calophyllum brasilense, Couratari panamensis, Dendropanax arboreum y Bombacopsis sessilis

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