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MANGO (Mangifera caloneura)
Trade Name
Mango
Scientific Name
Mangifera caloneura Kurz.
Family
ANACARDIACEAE
Common Names
Taw thayet (Myanmar); Mango
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
It is a small to medium sized tree, up to 12 to 18 m high and 100 cm in diameter. It has a clean bole of 4.5 to 7.5 m
Plantations Available?
This tree is planted for its fruits.
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Vessels per mm2 less than 6 (rare). Tyloses common. Tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100 to 200 micras. Vessel-ray pits coarse throughout the ray cell. Tyloses common. Simple perforation plates. Intervessel pits large, 10 micras or more. Simple perforation p Axial parenchyma confluent. Axial parenchyma in marginal or in seemingly marginal bands. Occasionally prismatic crystals in non-chambered axial parenchyma cells. 5 to 8 cells per parenchyma strand. 4 to 10 rays per mm (medium). Rays 1 to 4 seriate. Prismatic crystals in upright and/or square ray cells. Body ray cells procumbent with one row of upright and/or square marginal cells (Kribs-III). Body ray cells procumbent with one row of upright and/or squa Fibers with simple to minutely bordered pits.
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Color
The heartwood is dark brown, the sapwood is yellow brown.
Natural Durability
It is considered as non durable.
Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)
5
Internal Growth Stresses
Growth stresses are reported in this species.
Resistance To Impregnation
The wood is easy to treat with preservatives.
Wood Physical Properties
Basic Density or Specific Gravity (O.D. weight/vol. green) (g/cm³)
0.42
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.45
Total shrinkage Tangential (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
7.8
Total shrinkage Radial (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
4.3
Dimensional stability ratio (Total Tangential Shrinkage %/Total Radial Shrinkage %)
1.8
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)
642
Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
105000
Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
346
Workability
Sawing
The wood saws well, but excessive tension wood may cause jamming and extreme wooliness in some logs.
Rotary Veneer Cutting
Machang veneer has a tendency to curl and wrinkle during drying.
Sliced Veneer
Machang veneer has a tendency to curl and wrinkle during drying.
Machining
The response of this species to machining operations is good to fair. It gives rough surfaces in the radial face.
Planing
The wood is generally easy to plane with smooth tangential surfaces but often rough radial surfaces.
Moulding
The response of this species to molding operations is good to fair.
Nailing
Nailing properties of this wood are reported as good to fair.
Gluing
It is reported to be easy to glue.
Sanding
It has a good sanding behavior.
Finishing
Wood of this species is easy to finish.
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
HOUSING GENERAL, boards, frames, PACKING, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION
General Housing
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
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
Packing
- 45 - Recopilación y Análisis de Estudios Tecnológicos de Maderas Peruanas
Shipbuilding
- 55 - Tropical Timber Atlas of Latin America
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