PLUM MANGO (Bouea macrophylla)
Trade Name
Plum mango
Scientific Name
Bouea macrophylla Griff.
Family
ANACARDIACEAE
Common Names
Som Prang (Thailand); Maprang (Thailand); Setar (Malaysia); Kundang daun (Malaysia); Kundang (Malaysia); Pao gandari (Indonesia); Kundang; Gandaria (Indonesia)
Scientific Name Synonyms
Bouea gandaria Blume
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
It is a medium-sized to fairly large tree, up to 36 m tall and diameters of 80 cm, without buttresses. It is planted as a shadow tree.
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 large, 10 micras or more. Paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. Occasionally axial parenchyma aliform. Occasionally prismatic crystals in non-chambered axial parenchyma cells. Occasionally two cells per parenchyma strand. 3 to 4 cells per parenchyma strand. 5 to 8 ce 4 to 10 rays per mm (medium). Occasionally rays more than 10 per mm (abundant). Prismatic crystals in the ray cells. Body ray cells procumbent with mostly 2 to 4 rows of upright and/or square marginal cells (Kribs-II). Body ray cells procumbent with one row o Fibers with simple to minutely bordered pits.
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Color
The sapwood is not clearly differentiated from the heartwood, which is pale brown with a pinkish tinge. It has a dark brown core with black streaks.
Grain
The grain is reported to be straight or interlocked.
Texture
The texture of the wood is frequently coarse.
Natural Durability
The heartwood is reported to be durable against biological attack.
Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)
1
Wood Physical Properties
Basic Density or Specific Gravity (O.D. weight/vol. green) (g/cm³)
0.70
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.79
Drying Defects
Ease of Drying: Air drying is reported as good but slow.
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Workability
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
EXTERIOR GENERAL, HOUSING GENERAL, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, cabinets, TOOLS, tool handles, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts, pipe
Exterior General
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General Housing
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Furniture Cabinets
- 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
Cabinet
- 24 - Empire Timbers
Tools
- 42 - Utilización Industrial de Nuevas Especies Forestales en el Perú.
Tool Handles
- 43 - Maderas de Bolivia (Características y Usos de 55 Maderas Tropicales)
Handcraft
- 66 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VII. Caracteristicas anatomicas. propiedades fisicomecanicas, de secado, y tratabilidad de la madera juvenil de Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav. Oken.)
Pipes
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