SILKWOOD MAPLE (Flindersia brayleyana)
Trade Name
Silkwood maple
Scientific Name
Flindersia brayleyana F. v. Mueller
Family
RUTACEAE
Common Names
Silkwood; Red beech; Maple silkwood; Flindersia; Australian silkwood; Australian maple; Australian butt maple; Silkwood maple; Queensland maple
Scientific Name Synonyms
Flindersia chatawaiana F. M. Bailey
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
Trees up to 45 m tall, with a straight and cylindrical bole up to 100 cm. It is branchless up to 21 m, buttresses up to 2 m are reported.
Natural Habitat
Flindersia species are generally found scattered in well drained, evergreen rain forests or monsoon forests, from the sea level up to 2,700 m of altitude.
Natural Distribution
It can be found in Northern Queensland.
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Wood diffuse porous. Occasionally tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100 micras or less. Occasionally vessels with colored deposits. Vessels per mm2 5 to 20. Occasionally vessels per mm2 less than 6. Simple perforation plates. Vessel-ray pits similar to inter Apotracheal axial parenchyma diffuse and/or diffuse in aggregates. Paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. Prismatic crystals in chambered axial parenchyma cells and/or in fibers. Occasionally two cells per parenchyma strand. Occasionally axi 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). Homogeneous rays and/or sub-homogeneous rays (all ray cells procumbent). Fibers very thin walled. Fibers with simple to minutely bordered pits.
-
Wood Macro Photo Tangential Plane
-
Wood Micro Photo Of Transversal Section
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Odor
Sometimes it presents a honey-like fragrance.
Color
The sapwood is grayish. The heartwood varies from pale brown to flesh pink.
COLOR INDEX (1=Black, 7=Light yellow,white)
5
Grain
The grain is often interlocked and may also wavy or curly.
Texture
The texture is medium.
Luster
The wood is reported to have a natural silky luster.
Natural Durability
The wood is very durable when not in contact with the ground, but it is susceptible to attack by ambrosia beetles.
Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)
3
Resistance To Impregnation
The heartwood is resistant to preservative treatment, but the sapwood is permeable.
Wood Physical Properties
Basic Density or Specific Gravity (O.D. weight/vol. green) (g/cm³)
0.51
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.55
Total shrinkage Tangential (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
11.7
Total shrinkage Radial (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
5.1
Drying Defects
Ease of Drying: Seasoning is rather difficult. Drying Defects: It is prone to collapse, internal checking and warp. Kiln Schedules: Schedule suggested for Australian species. For New Zealand material USFD schedule T6-D2 and UK schedule E are recommended. Air seasoning is advisable before careful kiln drying, including reconditioning.
Recommended Dry Kiln Schedule
UK-C; US-T3-C2
Dimensional stability ratio (Total Tangential Shrinkage %/Total Radial Shrinkage %)
2.3
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Workability
Rotary Veneer Cutting
This species is interesting for lamination.
Sliced Veneer
This species is interesting for lamination.
Machining
Machining operations are rather easy.
Planing
Interlocked grain may pick up in planing.
Turning
30
Gluing
Gluing behavior is reportedly good.
Response To Hand Tools
Response to hand tools is reported to be good.
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
HOUSING GENERAL, flooring, frames, panelling, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, cabinets, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, TURNING, BENDING, SPORTS, TOOLS, agricultural tools, PACKING, CONTAINERS, cooperage, truck bodies, truck flooring, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, boats, boat oars, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts, moldings
General Housing
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
Flooring
- 14 - Handbook of Hardwoods
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.
Cabinet
- 24 - Empire Timbers
Panels, Veneers
- 25 - Directory of Timber Trade Malaysia
Turning
- 30 - Embassy of Honduras in Japan
Bending
- 35 - Embassy of Myanmar in Japan
Sports
- 38 - Annual Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation 1998-ITTO
Tools
- 42 - Utilización Industrial de Nuevas Especies Forestales en el Perú.
Agricultural Tools
- 44 - Atlas of Peruvian Woods
Packing
- 45 - Recopilación y Análisis de Estudios Tecnológicos de Maderas Peruanas
Containers
- 50 - Properties of imported tropical woods
Cooperage
- 51 - Recopilacion de propiedades mecanicas de maderas creciendo en Chile
Truck Body
- 53 - Timbers of the New World
Truck Flooring
- 54 - Bulletin of the Government Forest Experiment Station N.157: Identification of Tropical Woods
Shipbuilding
- 55 - Tropical Timber Atlas of Latin America
Boats
- 56 - Manual de Identificación de Especies Forestales de la Subregión Andina.
Boat Oars
- 60 - Amazonian Timbers, Characteristics and Utilization Volume II; Curuá-Una Experimental Forest Station
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.)
Molding
- 79 - Padronização da Nomenclatura Comercial Brasileira das Madeiras Tropicais Amazônicas, Sugestão
Please Provide Information To View Producer Information