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SAROSARO (Planehonclla vitiensis)
Trade Name
Sarosaro
Scientific Name
Planehonella vitiensis Gillespie
Family
Sapotaceae
Scientific Name Synonyms
Plauehonell
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
A large tree, bole 7-13m long, useally columnar and buttressed and occasionally flutted.
Natural Distribution
Fiji
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Vessels per mm2 6 to 10 (medium). Tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100 to 150 micras (small). Vessels in radial multiples of 4 or more common. Vessel clusters common. Axial parenchyma in continuous tangential lines (included in reticulate and scalariform). Apotracheal axial parenchyma diffuse and/or diffuse in aggregates. Occasionally heterogeneous rays and/or multiseriate heterogeneous rays.
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Color
Heart wood color ranges from orange to pale reddish-brown and is sometimes streaky. sapwood is lighter in color or pale brown.
Grain
The grain straight or slightly interlocked.
Texture
Texture fine.
Natural Durability
Sapwood is susceptible to Lyctus attack. Heartwood is not durable being rated adequate only for hazard 1 end use. Timber out of ground contact. continuously protected from the weather.
Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)
3
Wood Physical Properties
Basic Density or Specific Gravity (O.D. weight/vol. green) (g/cm³)
0.77
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.96
Total shrinkage Tangential (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
7.0
Total shrinkage Radial (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
3.3
Recommended Dry Kiln Schedule
Fiji-7
Dimensional stability ratio (Total Tangential Shrinkage %/Total Radial Shrinkage %)
2.1
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)
1300
Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
185000
Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
700
Workability
Sawing
saw faces packed with saw dust
Rotary Veneer Cutting
not assessed
Sliced Veneer
not assessed
Machining
Good surfaces are obtained machining seasoned timber, although slight chipping occurs on some radial faces because of interlocked grain. Reduced cutting angle will ensure better results
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
HOUSING GENERAL, frames, panelling, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, luxury furniture, cabinets, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, faces, cores, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts
General Housing
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
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.
Furniture, Luxury
- 22 - Dry kiln schedules for commercial woods. Temperate and tropical. Section IV-Asian and Oceanian Woods
Cabinet
- 24 - Empire Timbers
Panels, Veneers
- 25 - Directory of Timber Trade Malaysia
Faces
- 26 - Annual Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation 1998-ITTO
Cores
- 27 - Embassy of Brazil in Japan
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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