PODOCARP (Nageia vitiensis)
Trade Name
Podocarp
Scientific Name
Nageia vitiensis (Seem.) O. Kuntze
Family
PODOCARPACEAE
Common Names
Red podocarp (United Kingdom); Lehil (Papua New Guinea); Mugo (Indonesia); Red podocarp (United States of America)
Scientific Name Synonyms
Podocarpus vitiensis Seem.; Podocarpus filicifolius N.E. Gray; Decusocarpus vitiensis (Seem.)de Laubenf.
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
It is a medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 43 m tall. The bole is up to 130 cm in diameter.
Natural Habitat
Nageia vitiensis grows scattered in primary rain forests, from the sea level up to 1,800 m of altitude.
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Occasionally axial parenchyma apparent with the naked eye. Apotracheal axial parenchyma diffuse and/or diffuse in aggregates. 4 to 10 rays per mm (medium). Rays exclusively uniseriate.
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Wood Micro Photo Of Transversal Section
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Color
The heartwood is pale pinkish-brown to pale yellowish-brown, sometimes with an orange tinge, often not clearly demarcated from the paler, straw-colored sapwood.
COLOR INDEX (1=Black, 7=Light yellow,white)
4
Grain
This species is reported to have straight grain.
Texture
The wood is mostly fine in texture.
Natural Durability
The wood is reported to be liable to blue stain, and to attacks of termites, pinhole borers, longhorn beetles and marine borers.
Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)
6
Resistance To Impregnation
The heartwood is reported to be extremely resistant to impregnation but the sapwood is treatable.
Wood Physical Properties
Basic Density or Specific Gravity (O.D. weight/vol. green) (g/cm³)
0.38
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.41
Drying Defects
Ease of Drying: Air seasoning is reported to be rapid. Drying Defects: Risk of moderate warping. Kiln Schedules: Kiln drying is fairly rapid under moderate schedules.
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)
734
Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
80144
Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
438
Compression perpendicular to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
71
Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
102
Janka hardness (end grain) 12%MC (kgf)
533
Workability
Sawing
Cutting resistance is generally low.
Rotary Veneer Cutting
This species can be used for lamination, but the yields are often low.
Sliced Veneer
This species can be used for lamination, but the yields are often low.
Machining
Machining of this species is reported to be easy.
Moulding
Molding of this species is reported to be easy.
Nailing
Nail holding behavior is reportedly poor.
Gluing
It has a good behavior in gluing.
Finishing
Wood of this species gives a good finish.
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
HOUSING GENERAL, beams, flooring, frames, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, TOOLS, PACKING, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, boat oars, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts, matches, moldings
General Housing
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
Beams
- 11 - Prospect: The wood database
Flooring
- 14 - Handbook of Hardwoods
Frames
- 16 - Woods of the World
Furniture Cabinets
- 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
Panels, Veneers
- 25 - Directory of Timber Trade Malaysia
Tools
- 42 - Utilización Industrial de Nuevas Especies Forestales en el Perú.
Packing
- 45 - Recopilación y Análisis de Estudios Tecnológicos de Maderas Peruanas
Shipbuilding
- 55 - Tropical Timber Atlas of Latin America
Boat Oars
- 60 - Amazonian Timbers, Characteristics and Utilization Volume II; Curuá-Una Experimental Forest Station
Handcraft
- 66 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VII. Caracteristicas anatomicas. propiedades fisicomecanicas, de secado, y tratabilidad de la madera juvenil de Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav. Oken.)
Matches
- 71 - Proprietes physiques et mecaniques des bois tropicaux, premier supplement
Molding
- 79 - Padronização da Nomenclatura Comercial Brasileira das Madeiras Tropicais Amazônicas, Sugestão
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