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MAGABUYO (Celtis luzonica)
Trade Name
MAGABUYO
Scientific Name
Celtis luzonica Warb. (Ulm.)
Family
Ulmaceae
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
Large tree;hight up to 25m,DBH up to 60 cm or more; long bole. cylindrical, erect and tapering.
Natural Habitat
Endemic, widely distributed from Northern Luzon to Mindanao in thickets and medium altitudes.
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Wood diffuse porous. Simple perforation plates. Vessel-ray pits similar to intervessel pits in size and shape. Tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100 to 200 micras. Vessels per mm2 less than 6 (rare). Axial parenchyma aliform. Axial parenchyma confluent. Prismatic crystals in non-chambered axial parenchyma cells. Prismatic crystals in chambered axial parenchyma cells and/or in fibers. 4 to 10 rays per mm (medium). Larger rays more than 4 seriate. Heterogeneous rays and/or multiseriate heterogeneous rays. Prismatic crystals in the ray cells. Fibers with simple to minutely bordered pits.
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Color
Wood is straw colored or pale white.
COLOR INDEX (1=Black, 7=Light yellow,white)
7
Grain
grain crossed
Texture
texture moderately fine to moderately coarse.
Natural Durability
non-durable, 1 to 2.5 years, Treatability Easy to treat.
Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)
5
Wood Physical Properties
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.49
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)
557
Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
252
Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
87
Janka hardness (side) 12%MC (kgf)
367
Workability
Sawing
Moderate to saw.
Machining
Fair machining property.
Finishing
Good.
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
EXTERIOR GENERAL, poles, paling, HOUSING GENERAL, boards, frames, panelling, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, SPORTS, bowling polo balls, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts, axle, door core
Poles
- 3 - Estudo dendrologico e determinacao das caracteristicas fisicas e mecanicas do genipapo (Genipa americana)
Paling Fence Pickets
- 4 - Estudo dendrologico e determinacao das caracteristicas fisicas e mecanicas da bicuiba
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
Paneling
- 18 - W3TROPICOS Missouri Botanical Garden
Furniture Cabinets
- 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
Balls Bowling Polo
- 40 - Internet
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
Door Cores
- 76 - Descripción General y Anatómica de 105 Maderas del Grupo Andino.
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