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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
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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