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Penarahan
Myristica iners Blume
MYRISTICACEAE
Kayu luo (Indonesia); Chan daeng (Thailand); Penarahan arang (Malaysia)
Myristica vordermanii Warb; Myristica heritieriifolia Pierre ex Lecomte
It is medium-sized to large tree up to 45 m tall. The bole is cylindrical, up to 100 cm in diameter, sometimes with stilt roots.
Myristica iners is common in evergreen rain forests.
Tyloses common. Vessels per mm2 5 to 20. Vessel-ray pits reticulate and/or foraminate. Reticulate, foraminate and/or other types of multiple perforation plates. Simple perforation plates. Multiple perforation plates. Intervessel pits medium, 7 to 10 micras. Paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. 5 to 8 cells per parenchyma strand. Axial parenchyma in narrow bands on lines up to 3 cells wide. 4 to 10 rays per mm (medium). Ray height more than 1 mm. Larger rays more than 4 seriate. Oil and/or mucilage cells associated with the axial and/or ray parenchyma (idioblasts). Body ray cells procumbent with one row of upright and/or square marginal cells (K Fibers with simple to minutely bordered pits. Fibers very thin walled.
Unrestricted
The heartwood is pale brown or brown to orange-brown and distinctly or indistinctly demarcated from the yellowish to pale brown sapwood.
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The grain is straight to slightly interlocked.
The texture is typically moderately coarse.
The wood is more or less lustrous.
The wood is susceptible to subterranean termite and fungal attack, indoors it is liable to dry-wood termite and powder-post beetle attack.
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The sapwood is reported as easy to preserve.
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Ease of Drying: Seasoning is generally easy and rapid with little degrade. Drying Defects: Bowing and twisting are reported. Kiln Schedules: Kiln drying is fairly rapid under moderate schedules.
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Sawing of this species is reported to be rather easy.
This timber is reported to be suitable for lamination.
This timber is reported to be suitable for lamination.
This species is easy to plane.
Molding operations are rather easy.
Boring is reported to be fair to difficult.
Mortising is reported to be easy.
This species is reported to have a good nailing behavior.
It has a good behavior in gluing.
Sanding of this wood is easy.
Finishing gives smooth to moderately smooth surfaces.
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