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KEDONDONG (Garuga pinnata)
Trade Name
Kedondong
Scientific Name
Garuga pinnata Roxb.
Family
BURSERACEAE
Common Names
Gendeli poma (India); Chinyok (Myanmar)
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
It is a medium sized tree which can reach up to 50 or 60 cm in diameter and boles of 8 to 10 meters long.
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Vessels per mm2 5 to 20. Wood diffuse porous. Tyloses common. Tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100 to 200 micras. Vessel-ray pits reticulate and/or foraminate. Tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100 micras or less (very small). Simple perforation plates. I Paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. Occasionally prismatic crystals in non-chambered axial parenchyma cells. 3 to 4 cells per parenchyma strand. 4 to 10 rays per mm (medium). Occasionally larger rays more than 4 seriate. Prismatic crystals in radial alignment in procumbent ray cells (chambered cells). Body ray cells procumbent with mostly 2 to 4 rows of upright and/or square marginal cells (Kribs-II) Fibers with simple to minutely bordered pits. Septate fibers present.
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Odor
The wood has acidic odor when freshly cut.
Color
The sapwood is yellowish brown and the heartwood is yellowish red.
COLOR INDEX (1=Black, 7=Light yellow,white)
5
Grain
It has straight grain.
Texture
The texture is fine.
Luster
The wood is slightly lustrous.
Natural Durability
The sapwood is sensitive to insects and fungus, the heartwood is resistant to 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)
0.64
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.71
Total shrinkage Tangential (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
7.6
Total shrinkage Radial (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
5.9
Dimensional stability ratio (Total Tangential Shrinkage %/Total Radial Shrinkage %)
1.3
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)
782
Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
92000
Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
493
Workability
Sawing
Wood of this species is easy to cut.
Machining
It is easy to machine.
Planing
Planing is reported to be easy.
Nailing
The nailing properties are rated as fair.
Staining
Staining of this species is reportedly easy.
Coatings
Painting or varnishing of this species is reportedly easy.
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
HOUSING GENERAL, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, PACKING, light packing, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, shoes, matches, paper
General Housing
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
Furniture Cabinets
- 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
Panels, Veneers
- 25 - Directory of Timber Trade Malaysia
Packing
- 45 - Recopilación y Análisis de Estudios Tecnológicos de Maderas Peruanas
Light Packing
- 46 - ECUADOR, Inventario y Aprovechamiento de los Bosques del Sur Ecuatoriano
Shoes
- 70 - Proprietes physiques et mecaniques des bois tropicaux de l`union francaise
Matches
- 71 - Proprietes physiques et mecaniques des bois tropicaux, premier supplement
Paper
- 82 - Compilation of Data on the Mechanical Properties of Foreign woods (Part 2) Central and South America.
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