BALOBO (Diplodiscus paniculatus)
Trade Name
BALOBO
Scientific Name
Diplodiscus paniculatus Turcz.
Family
Tiliacea
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
Medium size tree; height up to 20 m, DBH up to 60 cm; bole short, cylindrical, crooked, tapering; crown irregular in shape, buttress high.
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Wood diffuse porous. Vessels solitary and in short radial multiples. Tyloses common. Tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100 micras or less (very small). Simple perforation plates. Vessel-ray pits larger than the intervessel pits. Axial parenchyma in continuous tangential lines (included in reticulate and scalariform). Ray width 1 to 3 cells. Rays storied.
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Color
Sapwood is not marked off from heartwood , which is grayish or pale reddish brown
COLOR INDEX (1=Black, 7=Light yellow,white)
4
Grain
grain straight
Texture
texture moderately fine, hard and heavy
Natural Durability
Non- durable 1 to 2.5 years.
Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)
5
Resistance To Impregnation
Easy to treat.
Wood Physical Properties
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.63
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)
812
Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
310
Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
93
Janka hardness (side) 12%MC (kgf)
616
Workability
Sawing
Easy to saw
Machining
very good machining property
Finishing
Fair
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
HOUSING GENERAL, boards, frames, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, cabinets, SPORTS, bowling polo balls, TOOLS, tool handles, agricultural tools, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, pencil, yoke, door core, moldings
General Housing
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
Boards
- 13 - Dry kiln schedules for commercial woods. Temperate and tropical. Section III. Latin American (Mexico, Central, and South America) Woods–Conventional Temperatures
Frames
- 16 - Woods of the World
Furniture Cabinets
- 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
Cabinet
- 24 - Empire Timbers
Balls Bowling Polo
- 40 - Internet
Tools
- 42 - Utilización Industrial de Nuevas Especies Forestales en el Perú.
Tool Handles
- 43 - Maderas de Bolivia (Características y Usos de 55 Maderas Tropicales)
Agricultural Tools
- 44 - Atlas of Peruvian Woods
Pencils
- 67 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VIII, Calophyllum brasilense, Couratari panamensis, Dendropanax arboreum y Bombacopsis sessilis
Yokes
- 74 - World Timbers, Vol.2, North and South America
Door Cores
- 76 - Descripción General y Anatómica de 105 Maderas del Grupo Andino.
Molding
- 79 - Padronização da Nomenclatura Comercial Brasileira das Madeiras Tropicais Amazônicas, Sugestão
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