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KANDIS (Garcinia latissima)

Trade Name

Kandis

Scientific Name

Garcinia latissima Miq.

Family

CLUSIACEAE

Common Names

Garcinia; Buwsa (Vietnam); Kandis; Bunog (Philippines); Cha muang (Thailand)

Scientific Name Synonyms

Pentaphalangium latissimum (Miq.) Lauterb

Description Of The Tree

Botanical Description

It is an evergreen, small to medium-sized tree up to 10 m tall. The bole and straight and cylindrical.

Natural Habitat

Garcinia is found scattered in the second storey trees of primary lowland or montane rainforest, up to 900 m of altitude.

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Wood Identification

Anatomic Description Of Wood

Wood diffuse porous. Tyloses common. Vessels per mm2 5 to 20. Vessel-ray pits reticulate and/or foraminate. Simple perforation plates. Intervessel pits medium, 7 to 10 micras. Paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. Occasionally prismatic crystals in non-chambered axial parenchyma cells. 3 to 4 cells per parenchyma strand. 4 to 10 rays per mm (medium). Occasionally larger rays more than 4 seriate. Prismatic crystals in radial alignment in procumbent ray cells (chambered cells). Body ray cells procumbent with mostly 2 to 4 rows of upright and/or square marginal cells (Kribs-II) Septate fibers present. Fibers with simple to minutely bordered pits.

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  • Wood Micro Photo Of Transversal Section

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Cites Status

Unrestricted

General Wood Description

Color

The sapwood is not clearly differentiated from the heartwood, which is light yellow to light brown-yellow-white.

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

5

Grain

The grain is straight or irregular

Texture

Texture of this species is reported to vary from fine to moderately fine and even.

Luster

The luster is very low.

Natural Durability

This species is considered as moderately durable. The heartwood is moderately resistant to dry wood termites.

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

3

Internal Growth Stresses

Back sawn boards are prone to warp.

Resistance To Impregnation

For G. latissima a retention of about 320 kg/m3 has been determined.

Wood Physical Properties

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

0.67

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

0.75

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

10.2

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

4.9

Recommended Dry Kiln Schedule

UK-B; US-T2-C2

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

2.1

Wood Chemical Properties

Wood Mechanical Properties

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

1371

Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)

130840

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

892

Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)

102

Workability

Sawing

Sawing of this species is easy.

Blunting Effect

The wood has a moderate blunting effect.

Turning

30

Finishing

Wood of this species gives a good finish.

REFERENCED USES

End Uses Summary

EXTERIOR GENERAL, bridges, poles, stakes posts, HOUSING GENERAL, beams, joists, flooring, TURNING, TOOLS, tool handles, PACKING, pallets, CONTAINERS, truck bodies, truck flooring, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, shingle

Exterior General
  • 1 - Tabela de resultados de ensaios fisicos e mecanicos
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)
Stake Posts
  • 5 - Propriedades fisicas e mecanicas da madeira e do contraplacado de Pinus elliottii
General Housing
  • 10 - Silica in Timbers
Beams
  • 11 - Prospect: The wood database
Joists
  • 12 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part I-Tropical American Species
Flooring
  • 14 - Handbook of Hardwoods
Turning
  • 30 - Embassy of Honduras in Japan
Tools
  • 42 - Utilización Industrial de Nuevas Especies Forestales en el Perú.
Tool Handles
  • 43 - Maderas de Bolivia (Características y Usos de 55 Maderas Tropicales)
Packing
  • 45 - Recopilación y Análisis de Estudios Tecnológicos de Maderas Peruanas
Pallets
  • 48 - The strength properties of timbers
Truck Body
  • 53 - Timbers of the New World
Truck Flooring
  • 54 - Bulletin of the Government Forest Experiment Station N.157: Identification of Tropical Woods
Shingles
  • 77 - Amazonian Timbers, Characteristics and Utilization Volume I; Tapajós National Forest

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