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PODOCARP (Nageia vitiensis)

Trade Name

Podocarp

Scientific Name

Nageia vitiensis (Seem.) O. Kuntze

Family

PODOCARPACEAE

Common Names

Red podocarp (United Kingdom); Lehil (Papua New Guinea); Mugo (Indonesia); Red podocarp (United States of America)

Scientific Name Synonyms

Podocarpus vitiensis Seem.; Podocarpus filicifolius N.E. Gray; Decusocarpus vitiensis (Seem.)de Laubenf.

Description Of The Tree

Botanical Description

It is a medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 43 m tall. The bole is up to 130 cm in diameter.

Natural Habitat

Nageia vitiensis grows scattered in primary rain forests, from the sea level up to 1,800 m of altitude.

Wood Identification

Anatomic Description Of Wood

Occasionally axial parenchyma apparent with the naked eye. Apotracheal axial parenchyma diffuse and/or diffuse in aggregates. 4 to 10 rays per mm (medium). Rays exclusively uniseriate.

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

Availability

Cites Status

Unrestricted

General Wood Description

Color

The heartwood is pale pinkish-brown to pale yellowish-brown, sometimes with an orange tinge, often not clearly demarcated from the paler, straw-colored sapwood.

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

4

Grain

This species is reported to have straight grain.

Texture

The wood is mostly fine in texture.

Natural Durability

The wood is reported to be liable to blue stain, and to attacks of termites, pinhole borers, longhorn beetles and marine borers.

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

6

Resistance To Impregnation

The heartwood is reported to be extremely resistant to impregnation but the sapwood is treatable.

Wood Physical Properties

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

0.38

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

0.41

Drying Defects

Ease of Drying: Air seasoning is reported to be rapid. Drying Defects: Risk of moderate warping. Kiln Schedules: Kiln drying is fairly rapid under moderate schedules.

Wood Chemical Properties

Wood Mechanical Properties

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

734

Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)

80144

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

438

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

71

Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)

102

Janka hardness (end grain) 12%MC (kgf)

533

Workability

Sawing

Cutting resistance is generally low.

Rotary Veneer Cutting

This species can be used for lamination, but the yields are often low.

Sliced Veneer

This species can be used for lamination, but the yields are often low.

Machining

Machining of this species is reported to be easy.

Moulding

Molding of this species is reported to be easy.

Nailing

Nail holding behavior is reportedly poor.

Gluing

It has a good behavior in gluing.

Finishing

Wood of this species gives a good finish.

REFERENCED USES

End Uses Summary

HOUSING GENERAL, beams, flooring, frames, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, TOOLS, PACKING, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, boat oars, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts, matches, moldings

General Housing
  • 10 - Silica in Timbers
Beams
  • 11 - Prospect: The wood database
Flooring
  • 14 - Handbook of Hardwoods
Frames
  • 16 - Woods of the World
Furniture Cabinets
  • 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
Panels, Veneers
  • 25 - Directory of Timber Trade Malaysia
Tools
  • 42 - Utilización Industrial de Nuevas Especies Forestales en el Perú.
Packing
  • 45 - Recopilación y Análisis de Estudios Tecnológicos de Maderas Peruanas
Shipbuilding
  • 55 - Tropical Timber Atlas of Latin America
Boat Oars
  • 60 - Amazonian Timbers, Characteristics and Utilization Volume II; Curuá-Una Experimental Forest Station
Handcraft
  • 66 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VII. Caracteristicas anatomicas. propiedades fisicomecanicas, de secado, y tratabilidad de la madera juvenil de Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav. Oken.)
Matches
  • 71 - Proprietes physiques et mecaniques des bois tropicaux, premier supplement
Molding
  • 79 - Padronização da Nomenclatura Comercial Brasileira das Madeiras Tropicais Amazônicas, Sugestão

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