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KAMERERE (Eucalyptus deglupta)

Trade Name

Kamerere

Scientific Name

Eucalyptus deglupta Blume

Family

Myrtaceae

Common Names

Mindanao gum (Australia); Komo (Papua New Guinea); Eucalyptus (Malaysia); Banikag (Philippines); Leda; Leda (Indonesia); Bagras (Philippines); Kamarere (Solomon Islands); Kamarere (Papua New Guinea)

Description Of The Tree

Botanical Description

It is a huge evergreen tree of up to 60 m tall. The bole is generally of good form, up to half or two thirds of the tree height. Diameters up to 240 cm are reported, sometimes with buttresses of 3 to 4 m high.

Natural Habitat

Eucalyptus deglupta grows typically in pure stands, from the sea level up to 1,800 m of altitude.

Natural Distribution

It is native to the Philippines and other western Pacific islands.

Plantations Available?

It is favored as a plantation species throughout the world in lowland humid tropics.

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Wood Identification

Anatomic Description Of Wood

Wood diffuse porous. Vessels in diagonal and/or radial pattern. Vessels exclusively solitary (over 90%). Tyloses common. Vestured pits. Vessels per mm2 5 to 20. Vessel-ray pits reticulate and/or foraminate. Vascular/vasicentric tracheides present. Simple perforat Apotracheal axial parenchyma diffuse and/or diffuse in aggregates. Paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. Prismatic crystals in chambered axial parenchyma cells and/or in fibers. Rays more than 10 per mm (abundant). Homogeneous rays and/or sub-homogeneous rays (all ray cells procumbent). Fibers with distinctly bordered pits.

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

Availability

Cites Status

Unrestricted

General Wood Description

Odor

It has no taste or odor.

Color

The sapwood varies from pale white to light pink. The heartwood varies from light red to cocoa brown.

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

4

Grain

It is partly straight, partly interlocked.

Texture

The texture varies from moderately coarse to coarse.

Luster

The heartwood has a moderate luster.

Natural Durability

It is moderately resistant to fungal attack if exposed above the ground, but liable to termite and marine borer attack.

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

3

Silica Content

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

Resistance To Impregnation

The sapwood is reported to be easy to preserve but the heartwood is untreatable.

Wood Physical Properties

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

0.68

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

0.76

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

7.5

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

4.7

Recommended Dry Kiln Schedule

UK-E; US-T6-D2

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

1.6

Wood Chemical Properties

Wood Mechanical Properties

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

966

Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)

164799

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

607

Janka hardness (side) 12%MC (kgf)

156

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

167

Workability

Sawing

This species is easy to saw.

Rotary Veneer Cutting

It can be peeled if steamed.

Sliced Veneer

It can be peeled if steamed.

Machining

It works well with hand and machine tools, although it has a slight tendency to tear out in machining.

Planing

This species is easy to plane.

Moulding

Molding operations are easy to fair.

Turning

30

Boring

It is easy to bore.

Mortising

Mortising is reported to be easy.

Nailing

Pre-bore is recommended for nailing to avoid splitting.

Gluing

The timber is reported to glue well.

Finishing

With care a good finishing can be obtained.

Staining

Staining of this species is reportedly easy.

Coatings

Painting or varnishing of this species is reportedly easy.

Polishing

Wood of this species is easy to polish.

Response To Hand Tools

This species is reported to be easy to work with hand tools.

REFERENCED USES

End Uses Summary

HOUSING GENERAL, flooring, frames, panelling, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, TURNING, SPORTS, TOOLS, tool handles, agricultural tools, PACKING, CONTAINERS, cooperage, truck bodies, truck flooring, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts, moldings, paper

General Housing
  • 10 - Silica in Timbers
Flooring
  • 14 - Handbook of Hardwoods
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.
Panels, Veneers
  • 25 - Directory of Timber Trade Malaysia
Turning
  • 30 - Embassy of Honduras 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
Handcraft
  • 66 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VII. Caracteristicas anatomicas. propiedades fisicomecanicas, de secado, y tratabilidad de la madera juvenil de Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav. Oken.)
Molding
  • 79 - Padronização da Nomenclatura Comercial Brasileira das Madeiras Tropicais Amazônicas, Sugestão
Paper
  • 82 - Compilation of Data on the Mechanical Properties of Foreign woods (Part 2) Central and South America.

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