CORALWOOD (Adenanthera pavonina)
Trade Name
Coralwood
Scientific Name
Adenanthera pavonina L.
Family
LEGUMINOSAE
Common Names
Ywgee; Thorlaganj; Recheda; Ranjana; Rakta-chandon; Pei; Manjati; Manjadi; Madatiya; Gung; Coral wood; Bandi gurivenda; Ani kundamani; Bois de corail (France); Coralwood; Coral bean (United States of America); Ma klam (Thailand); Phai (Thailand); Saga (Indonesia); Tanglin (Philippines); Ywe (Myanmar); Ywegyi (Myanmar); Saga bean (United States of America); Ma daeng (Thailand); Lim v[af]ng (Vietnam); Tr[aws] qu[aj]ch (Vietnam); Saga (Malaysia)
Scientific Name Synonyms
Adenanthera gersenii Scheffer
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
It is a mostly deciduous, small to medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall. The bole is straight and cylindrical to rather poorly shaped, branchless for up to 16 m, up to 100 cm in diameter. The buttresses are usually low and small but occasionally up to 4 m hi
Natural Habitat
It is a common tree that can be found in the seashore and inland in the lowlands.
Plantations Available?
Plantations are reported in India and Africa.
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Wood diffuse porous. Occasionally tangential diameter of vessel lumina 200 micras or more. Occasionally vessels with colored deposits. Vestured pits. Vessels per mm2 less than 6 (rare). Simple perforation plates. Vessel-ray pits similar to intervessel pits in s Axial parenchyma in marginal or in seemingly marginal bands. Occasionally apotracheal axial parenchyma diffuse and/or diffuse in aggregates. Axial parenchyma aliform. Occasionally axial parenchyma confluent. Prismatic crystals in chambered axial parenchyma ce 4 to 10 rays per mm (medium). Homogeneous rays and/or sub-homogeneous rays (all ray cells procumbent). Crystals in fibers. Fibers with simple to minutely bordered pits.
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Wood Macro Photo Radial Plane
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Wood Micro Photo Of Transversal Section
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Color
The heartwood is bright yellow when fresh, turning to golden-brown or dark brown, sharply demarcated from the whitish, yellowish, pinkish or pale brown sapwood.
COLOR INDEX (1=Black, 7=Light yellow,white)
4
Grain
This species is typically reported to have wavy or interlocked grain.
Texture
The texture varies from moderately fine to slightly coarse.
Luster
This wood is commonly of moderate luster.
Natural Durability
The wood is moderately durable to very durable. The heartwood is resistant to dry-wood termites.
Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)
4
Wood Physical Properties
Basic Density or Specific Gravity (O.D. weight/vol. green) (g/cm³)
0.6326040812
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.70
Total shrinkage Tangential (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
7.1
Total shrinkage Radial (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
4.2
Drying Defects
Ease of Drying: It takes about 4 months to air dry boards 15 mm thick. Kiln Schedules: For kiln drying, a temperature of 40.5 to 65.5 degrees is recommended with corresponding relative humidity of 85% to 40%.
Dimensional stability ratio (Total Tangential Shrinkage %/Total Radial Shrinkage %)
1.7
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)
1074
Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
125911
Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
700
Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
112
Janka hardness (side) 12%MC (kgf)
1099
Janka hardness (end grain) 12%MC (kgf)
1099
Workability
Machining
Machining operations are rated as fair to difficult.
Planing
Planing of this species is reported to be easy.
Turning
30
Nailing
Nailing properties are good.
Finishing
Finishing of this wood is easy.
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
EXTERIOR GENERAL, bridges, stakes posts, HOUSING GENERAL, beams, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, cabinets, TURNING, PACKING, CONTAINERS, truck bodies, truck flooring, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts, scale model
Exterior General
- 1 - Tabela de resultados de ensaios fisicos e mecanicos
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
Furniture Cabinets
- 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
Cabinet
- 24 - Empire Timbers
Turning
- 30 - Embassy of Honduras in Japan
Packing
- 45 - Recopilación y Análisis de Estudios Tecnológicos de Maderas Peruanas
Truck Body
- 53 - Timbers of the New World
Truck Flooring
- 54 - Bulletin of the Government Forest Experiment Station N.157: Identification of Tropical Woods
Handcraft
- 66 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VII. Caracteristicas anatomicas. propiedades fisicomecanicas, de secado, y tratabilidad de la madera juvenil de Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav. Oken.)
Scale Models
- 83 - Algunas caracteristicas fisicomecanicas de la madera de tres especies de la cordillera NeoVolcanica
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