TULIP PLUM (Pleiogynium timorense)
Trade Name
Tulip plum
Scientific Name
Pleiogynium timorense (DC.) Leenh.
Family
ANACARDIACEAE
Common Names
Woigiek (Indonesia); Injo wato (Indonesia); Lumba (Indonesia); Woigiek (West Irian); Tulip plum (Papua New Guinea); Tulip plum; Burdekin plum
Scientific Name Synonyms
Pleiogynium solandri (Benth.) Engl.; Pleiogynium papuanum C.T White; Pleiogynium cerasiferum (F. v. Mueller) R. Parker
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
It is a tree to 36 m tall, 75 cm in diameter. It present buttresses 2.5 m high.
Plantations Available?
Pleiogynium timorense is planted in the Cook Islands and Hawaii.
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Wood diffuse porous. Occasionally tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100 micras or less. Tyloses common. Vessels per mm2 5 to 20. Simple perforation plates. Intervessel pits medium, 7 to 10 micras. Intervessel pits large, 10 micras or more. Axial parenchyma in marginal or in seemingly marginal bands. Paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. Occasionally paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. Occasionally axial parenchyma aliform. Occasionally prismatic crystals 4 to 10 rays per mm (medium). Prismatic crystals in radial alignment in procumbent ray cells (chambered cells). 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 Septate fibers present. Fibers with simple to minutely bordered pits.
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Wood Macro Photo Tangential Plane
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Wood Micro Photo Of Transversal Section
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Color
The heartwood is dark red-brown with dark bands. The sapwood is pale pink to pink-brown.
COLOR INDEX (1=Black, 7=Light yellow,white)
3
Grain
The grain is mostly interlocked to straight.
Natural Durability
It is moderately durable to durable when exposed to the weather or in contact with the ground.
Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)
4
Resistance To Impregnation
The heartwood is highly resistant to preservative to treatment under pressure.
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
Total shrinkage Tangential (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
9.2
Total shrinkage Radial (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
4.3
Drying Defects
Ease of Drying: Drying is rather slow and sometimes difficult to perform. Drying Defects: Risks of distortions. and discoloration caused by decay Kiln Schedules: The kiln schedule has been tested.
Dimensional stability ratio (Total Tangential Shrinkage %/Total Radial Shrinkage %)
2.1
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)
1376
Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
161715
Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
856
Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
209
Janka hardness (side) 12%MC (kgf)
771
Workability
Sawing
Sawing of this wood is reported to be fair.
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
Machining of this species is fair to difficult due to the presence of interlocked grain.
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
EXTERIOR GENERAL, stakes posts, HOUSING GENERAL, beams, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, cabinets, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, TOOLS, tool handles
Exterior General
- 1 - Tabela de resultados de ensaios fisicos e mecanicos
Stake Posts
- 5 - Propriedades fisicas e mecanicas da madeira e do contraplacado de Pinus elliottii
General Housing
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
Beams
- 11 - Prospect: The wood database
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.
Tool Handles
- 43 - Maderas de Bolivia (Características y Usos de 55 Maderas Tropicales)
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