MEDANG (Phoebe grandis)
Trade Name
Medang
Scientific Name
Phoebe grandis (Nees) Merr.
Family
Lauraceae
Common Names
thang bon (Thailand); Mun khao (Thailand); Tha dong (Laos); Medang silau (Malaysia); Medang ketanah (Malaysia); Medang keserai (Malaysia); Marsihung (Indonesia); Huru taleus (Indonesia); Konjeh (Indonesia); Medang (Indonesia); Kulitarwas (Sumatra); Marsihung (Borneo); Medang pungut (Indonesia)
Scientific Name Synonyms
Phoebe opaca Zoll.; Phoebe multiflora Blume; Phoebe kunstleri Gamble; Phoebe opaca Blume
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
It is described as a small to medium sized tree, up to 25 m tall. The bole is usually straight and cylindrical, branchless for 15 m and 75 cm in diameter. Sometimes it is fluted at the base or with short buttresses up to 2 m high.
Natural Habitat
Phoebe is found in evergreen lowland to montane forests, up to 1,500 m of altitude. It is also reported in more open country and along the forest edges.
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Wood diffuse porous. Colored deposits in heartwood vessels. Tyloses common. Vessel-ray pits reticulate and/or foraminate. Simple perforation plates. Intervessel pits medium, 7 to 10 micras. Paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. Oil and/or mucilage cells associated with the axial and/or ray parenchyma (idioblasts). Body ray cells procumbent with one row of upright and/or square marginal cells (Kribs-III). Septate fibers present.
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Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Color
The heartwood is greenish yellow brown darkening on exposure, the sapwood is paler in color.
COLOR INDEX (1=Black, 7=Light yellow,white)
5
Grain
The grain is slightly interlocked or straight.
Texture
The texture is fine to medium.
Natural Durability
The wood is durable, but it rots in contact with the soil.
Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)
6
Wood Physical Properties
Basic Density or Specific Gravity (O.D. weight/vol. green) (g/cm³)
0.48
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.52
Total shrinkage Tangential (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
7.1
Total shrinkage Radial (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
5.2
Drying Defects
Ease of Drying: Drying is reported to be slow, and careful seasoning is recommended Drying Defects: Risk of some checking, warping and splitting.
Dimensional stability ratio (Total Tangential Shrinkage %/Total Radial Shrinkage %)
1.4
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)
895
Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
118500
Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
451
Workability
Rotary Veneer Cutting
This species is reported to have good characteristics for lamination.
Sliced Veneer
This species is reported to have good characteristics for lamination.
Machining
It is easy to machine.
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
HOUSING GENERAL, frames, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, cabinets, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, TOOLS, agricultural tools, PACKING, CONTAINERS, truck bodies, truck flooring, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts
General Housing
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
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
Panels, Veneers
- 25 - Directory of Timber Trade Malaysia
Tools
- 42 - Utilización Industrial de Nuevas Especies Forestales en el Perú.
Agricultural Tools
- 44 - Atlas of Peruvian Woods
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
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.)
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