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WHITE CEDAR (Dysoxylum malabaricum)

Trade Name

white cedar

Scientific Name

Dysoxylum malabaricum Bedd. Ex Hiem

Family

Meliaceae

Common Names

akil; vella-agil

Description Of The Tree

Botanical Description

Very large, up to 35 m in height and 60-90 cm in diameter, Bark grey with white warts.

Natural Distribution

West coast tropical evergreen and Southern hill-top tropical evergreen forests

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Wood Identification

Anatomic Description Of Wood

Wood diffuse porous. Tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100 to 150 micras (small). Vessels per mm2 6 to 10 (medium). Vessels in radial multiples of 2 to 4. Yellow-colored deposits in heartwood vessels. Axial parenchyma thin vasicentric. Axial parenchyma in marginal or in seemingly marginal bands. Ray width 1 to 3 cells. Occasionally rays more than 10 per mm (abundant).

Availability

Cites Status

Unrestricted

General Wood Description

Color

Sapwood whitish or greyish-yellow, heartwood yellow to golden yellow or yellowish-brown

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

6

Grain

Straight to somewhat interlocked

Texture

fine

Natural Durability

Very durable

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

2

Wood Physical Properties

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

0.72

Total shrinkage Tangential (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)

8.1

Total shrinkage Radial (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)

4.7

Dimensional stability ratio (Total Tangential Shrinkage %/Total Radial Shrinkage %)

1.7

Wood Chemical Properties

Wood Mechanical Properties

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

1182

Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)

141300

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

620

Workability

Sawing

Easy to saw and machine

Finishing

takes good polish

REFERENCED USES

End Uses Summary

HOUSING GENERAL, frames, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, common furniture, cabinets, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, faces, cores, TOOLS, tool handles, CONTAINERS, cooperage, truck bodies, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, moldings

General Housing
  • 10 - Silica in Timbers
Frames
  • 16 - Woods of the World
Furniture Cabinets
  • 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
Furniture, Common
  • 23 - Handbook of Hardwoods
Cabinet
  • 24 - Empire Timbers
Panels, Veneers
  • 25 - Directory of Timber Trade Malaysia
Faces
  • 26 - Annual Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation 1998-ITTO
Cores
  • 27 - Embassy of Brazil in Japan
Decorative veneer
  • -1 - Tabela de resultados de ensaios fisicos e mecanicos
Tools
  • 42 - Utilización Industrial de Nuevas Especies Forestales en el Perú.
Tool Handles
  • 43 - Maderas de Bolivia (Características y Usos de 55 Maderas Tropicales)
Cooperage
  • 51 - Recopilacion de propiedades mecanicas de maderas creciendo en Chile
Truck Body
  • 53 - Timbers of the New World
Molding
  • 79 - Padronização da Nomenclatura Comercial Brasileira das Madeiras Tropicais Amazônicas, Sugestão

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