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MAGABUYO (Celtis luzonica)

Trade Name

MAGABUYO

Scientific Name

Celtis luzonica Warb. (Ulm.)

Family

Ulmaceae

Description Of The Tree

Botanical Description

Large tree;hight up to 25m,DBH up to 60 cm or more; long bole. cylindrical, erect and tapering.

Natural Habitat

Endemic, widely distributed from Northern Luzon to Mindanao in thickets and medium altitudes.

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Wood Identification

Anatomic Description Of Wood

Wood diffuse porous. Simple perforation plates. Vessel-ray pits similar to intervessel pits in size and shape. Tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100 to 200 micras. Vessels per mm2 less than 6 (rare). Axial parenchyma aliform. Axial parenchyma confluent. Prismatic crystals in non-chambered axial parenchyma cells. Prismatic crystals in chambered axial parenchyma cells and/or in fibers. 4 to 10 rays per mm (medium). Larger rays more than 4 seriate. Heterogeneous rays and/or multiseriate heterogeneous rays. Prismatic crystals in the ray cells. Fibers with simple to minutely bordered pits.

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

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Cites Status

Unrestricted

General Wood Description

Color

Wood is straw colored or pale white.

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

7

Grain

grain crossed

Texture

texture moderately fine to moderately coarse.

Natural Durability

non-durable, 1 to 2.5 years, Treatability Easy to treat.

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

5

Wood Physical Properties

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

0.49

Wood Chemical Properties

Wood Mechanical Properties

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

557

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

252

Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)

87

Janka hardness (side) 12%MC (kgf)

367

Workability

Sawing

Moderate to saw.

Machining

Fair machining property.

Finishing

Good.

REFERENCED USES

End Uses Summary

EXTERIOR GENERAL, poles, paling, HOUSING GENERAL, boards, frames, panelling, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, SPORTS, bowling polo balls, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts, axle, door core

Poles
  • 3 - Estudo dendrologico e determinacao das caracteristicas fisicas e mecanicas do genipapo (Genipa americana)
Paling Fence Pickets
  • 4 - Estudo dendrologico e determinacao das caracteristicas fisicas e mecanicas da bicuiba
Boards
  • 13 - Dry kiln schedules for commercial woods. Temperate and tropical. Section III. Latin American (Mexico, Central, and South America) Woods–Conventional Temperatures
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.
Balls Bowling Polo
  • 40 - Internet
Other & Musical Instruments
  • 63 - Madeiras do Brazil II
Handcraft
  • 66 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VII. Caracteristicas anatomicas. propiedades fisicomecanicas, de secado, y tratabilidad de la madera juvenil de Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav. Oken.)
Axles
  • 73 - Handbook of Hardwoods
Door Cores
  • 76 - Descripción General y Anatómica de 105 Maderas del Grupo Andino.

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