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.
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 Macro Photo Radial Plane
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Wood Micro Photo Of Transversal Section
Availability
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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