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AINI (Artocarpus hirsutus)
Trade Name
Aini
Scientific Name
Artocarpus hirsutus Lamk.
Family
Moraceae Moraceae
Common Names
anjani (India); anjil
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
Large to very large, 25-45m in height with a clear bole of 10-20m and up to130cm diameter. Bark dark brown,smooth
Natural Distribution
West coast tropical evergreen, west coast semi-evergreen and Southern secondary moist mixed delicious forests.
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Wood diffuse porous. Occasionally tangential diameter of vessel lumina 200 micras or more. Vessels per mm2 less than 6 (rare). Vessels in radial multiples of 2 to 4. Tyloses common. White deposits in heartwood vessels. Paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. Axial parenchyma aliform. Rays 1 to 4 seriate.
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Color
Sapwood greyish or yellowish -white, heartwood golden yellow to yellowish-brown, lustrous when first exposed.
COLOR INDEX (1=Black, 7=Light yellow,white)
4
Grain
Straight to interlocked
Texture
texture medium
Natural Durability
Durable
Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)
1
Wood Physical Properties
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.60
Total shrinkage Tangential (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
5.3
Total shrinkage Radial (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
3.4
Dimensional stability ratio (Total Tangential Shrinkage %/Total Radial Shrinkage %)
1.6
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)
969
Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
122400
Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
616
Workability
Sawing
Easy to saw and machine when green;
Finishing
takes lasting polish
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
EXTERIOR GENERAL, poles, HOUSING GENERAL, beams, boards, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, common furniture, cabinets, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, faces, cores, SPORTS, TOOLS, tool handles, PACKING, light packing, CONTAINERS, cooperage, truck bodies, truck flooring, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, boats, boat deck, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, door core
Exterior General
- 1 - Tabela de resultados de ensaios fisicos e mecanicos
Poles
- 3 - Estudo dendrologico e determinacao das caracteristicas fisicas e mecanicas do genipapo (Genipa americana)
Beams
- 11 - Prospect: The wood database
Boards
- 13 - Dry kiln schedules for commercial woods. Temperate and tropical. Section III. Latin American (Mexico, Central, and South America) Woods–Conventional Temperatures
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
Sports
- 38 - Annual Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation 1998-ITTO
Tools
- 42 - Utilización Industrial de Nuevas Especies Forestales en el Perú.
Tool Handles
- 43 - Maderas de Bolivia (Características y Usos de 55 Maderas Tropicales)
Light Packing
- 46 - ECUADOR, Inventario y Aprovechamiento de los Bosques del Sur Ecuatoriano
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
Boats
- 56 - Manual de Identificación de Especies Forestales de la Subregión Andina.
Boat Decking
- 59 - Programa Nacional de uso Sostenible de los Bosques e Incremento a las Exportaciones.
Door Cores
- 76 - Descripción General y Anatómica de 105 Maderas del Grupo Andino.
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