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ALBIZIA (Albizia odoratissima)
Trade Name
Albizia
Scientific Name
Albizia odoratissima (L.f.) Benth.
Family
LEGUMINOSAE
Common Names
Thit magyi (Myanmar); Albizia
Scientific Name Synonyms
Mimosa odoratissima L. f.; Feuilleea odoratissima (L. f.) Kuntze
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
It is a large tree reaching a height of 37 meters, with diameters of 50 to 90 cm. It presents a long, straight, cylindrical stem.
Natural Habitat
Albizia trees are described as a pioneer species in open, secondary or primary deciduous or monsoon forest and savanna and scrub vegetation.
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Wood diffuse porous. Colored deposits in heartwood vessels. Vessels per mm2 5 to 20. Intervessel pits small, 7 micras or less. Paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. Axial parenchyma aliform. Axial parenchyma confluent. Prismatic crystals in chambered axial parenchyma cells and/or in fibers. 4 to 10 rays per mm (medium). Septate fibers present.
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Color
Heartwood pale brown to dark reddish-brown or golden-brown with paler streaks and bands, sharply demarcated from the white to straw colored sapwood.
COLOR INDEX (1=Black, 7=Light yellow,white)
4
Grain
Grain sometimes straight but usually interlocked or wavy.
Texture
Texture moderately fine to moderately coarse and even.
Natural Durability
The wood is non-durable to durable in contact with the ground or exposed to the weather. It is resistant to dry-wood termites but the sapwood is susceptible to Lyctus.
Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)
6
Resistance To Impregnation
The heartwood is extremely resistant to impregnation, the sapwood is permeable.
Wood Physical Properties
Basic Density or Specific Gravity (O.D. weight/vol. green) (g/cm³)
0.68
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.76
Total shrinkage Tangential (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
8.1
Total shrinkage Radial (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
4.0
Recommended Dry Kiln Schedule
JP-24
Dimensional stability ratio (Total Tangential Shrinkage %/Total Radial Shrinkage %)
2.0
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)
956
Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
120000
Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
572
Workability
Sawing
Sawing of this species is reportedly easy to fair.
Rotary Veneer Cutting
This timber is reported to be suitable for lamination.
Sliced Veneer
This timber is reported to be suitable for lamination.
Blunting Effect
It has a moderate blunting effect on the cutting edges because of its hardness.
Machining
The cutting tools should be kept always well sharpened.
Planing
Planing of this species is reported to be easy.
Boring
The response of this species to boring operations is good to fair.
Mortising
It is easy to mortise.
Nailing
Nailing behavior is reportedly fair.
Finishing
It takes a good finishing.
Staining
Staining of this wood is easy.
Coatings
Painting or varnishing of this wood is rated as good to fair.
Response To Hand Tools
It is reported to have a fair to poor response to hand tools.
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
HOUSING GENERAL, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, luxury furniture, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, SPORTS, TOOLS, agricultural tools, CONTAINERS, truck bodies, truck flooring, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, boats, port pillar, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts, axle, wheel
General Housing
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
Furniture Cabinets
- 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
Furniture, Luxury
- 22 - Dry kiln schedules for commercial woods. Temperate and tropical. Section IV-Asian and Oceanian Woods
Panels, Veneers
- 25 - Directory of Timber Trade Malaysia
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
Containers
- 50 - Properties of imported tropical woods
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.
Port Pillar
- 61 - Manual de Diseño para Maderas del Grupo Andino
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.)
Axles
- 73 - Handbook of Hardwoods
Wheels
- 75 - Tropenholzer
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