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BEACH CALOPHYLLUM, BINTAGO (Calophyllum inophyllum)
Trade Name
Beach calophyllum, Bintago
Scientific Name
Calophyllum inophyllum L.
Family
GUTTIFERAE
Common Names
c[aa]y m[uf]u (Vietnam); Krathing (Thailand); ph'ong (Myanmar); Ponnyet (Myanmar); Palomaria (Philippines); Beach calophyllum (Papua New Guinea); Penaga (Malaysia); Penaga laut (Malaysia); Bintangor (Malaysia); Dingkaran (Indonesia); Nyamplung (Indonesia)
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
A meddium sized tree up to 25m tall, but sometimes as large as 35m, usually with twisted or leaning bole up to 150cm in diameter, with out buttresses.
Natural Habitat
In several areas ( Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, New Guinea) bintangor may be very aboundant and of considerable importnce for its timber. Besides traded locally. The timber and round logs are also exported to Japan. It is often common on the seashore(Sand
Natural Distribution
Eastern Africa, Madagasear, inlands of the Indian ocean, India, Sri Lanca, Myanmer,Indo-China, Thailand,Tiwan and the Ryulyu islands, thoughout Malesia,Northern Australia and the islands of the Pacific oecan.
Plantations Available?
Moderate scale plantations have been established in its range, as well as in wentern Africa and in the tropics of America.
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Vessels per mm2 6 to 10 (medium). Occasionally vessels in diagonal and/or radial pattern. Vessels exclusively solitary (over 90%). Occasionally tyloses common. Tangential diameter of vessel lumina 200 micras or more (large). Vessel-ray pits larger than the int Axial parenchyma in thick bands. Axial parenchyma bands more than 3 cells wide. Rays more than 10 per mm (abundant). Rays exclusively uniseriate. Prismatic crystals in the ray cells. Body ray cells procumbent with mostly 2 to 4 rows of upright and/or square marginal cells (Kribs-II). Septate fibers present. Fibers with simple to minutely bordered pits.
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Color
Sapwood, yellow-brown with a pink tinge and well defined from the heart wood, which is red-brown, pink-brown or orange-brown.
Grain
Interlocked grain.
Texture
Moderately coarse(finer than that of other Calophyllum species)
Luster
Exist
Natural Durability
More durable than that of other Calophyllum species.
Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)
3
Silica Content
Silica Content: Almost zero.
Resistance To Impregnation
Heart wood is resistance to preservative treatment.
Wood Physical Properties
Basic Density or Specific Gravity (O.D. weight/vol. green) (g/cm³)
0.56
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.61
Drying Defects
Ease of Drying: Easy to season. Green conversion and quick stacking recommended .
Recommended Dry Kiln Schedule
UK-C
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)
450
Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
65700
Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
325
Compression perpendicular to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
113
Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
150
Janka hardness (side) 12%MC (kgf)
51
Janka hardness (end grain) 12%MC (kgf)
48
Workability
Sawing
Resistant to cut(more difficult to saw)
Rotary Veneer Cutting
Good
Sliced Veneer
Good
Machining
Moderate
Planing
Moderately difficult to plane
Moulding
Moderate
Boring
Easy, but sometimes liable to burning
Mortising
Easy, but sometimes liable to burning
Nailing
Moderate to poor
Sanding
Easy
Polishing
Good, when the grain is properly filled.
Substitute Species
Red meranti
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
EXTERIOR GENERAL, bridges, stakes posts, HOUSING GENERAL, beams, boards, flooring, parquet, frames, panelling, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, cabinets, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, faces, Decorative veneer, PACKING, pallets, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, boats, boat deck, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, pipe, axle, moldings
Bridges
- 2 - 25 madeiras da amazonia de valor comercial, caracterizacao, macroscopica, usos comuns e indices qualificativos
Stake Posts
- 5 - Propriedades fisicas e mecanicas da madeira e do contraplacado de Pinus elliottii
General Housing
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
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
Flooring
- 14 - Handbook of Hardwoods
Parquet
- 15 - Empire Timbers
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
Faces
- 26 - Annual Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation 1998-ITTO
Decorative veneer
- 28 - Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forest of Fiji
Pallets
- 48 - The strength properties of timbers
Shipbuilding
- 55 - Tropical Timber Atlas of Latin America
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.
Other & Musical Instruments
- 63 - Madeiras do Brazil II
Pipes
- 69 -
Axles
- 73 - Handbook of Hardwoods
Molding
- 79 - Padronização da Nomenclatura Comercial Brasileira das Madeiras Tropicais Amazônicas, Sugestão
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