Description
Uses
interior joinery; carpentry; flooring: plywood (interior)
Wood Description
| Sapwood | not distinct from heartwood |
|---|---|
| Heartwood | yellowish white to yellowish light beige |
| Grain | frequently but generally slightly interlocked |
| Texture | fine to medium |
| Remark | – |
Technological Characteristics
| Physical properties | |
|---|---|
| Green density (g/cm³) | – |
| Air-dry density at 12% (g/cm³) | 0.84 |
| Basic specific gravity | 0.71 |
| Total tangential shrinkage (%) | 13.2 |
| Total radial shrinkage (%)3.5 | 8.2 |
| Total volumetric shrinkage (%) | 20.4 |
Processing
| Sawing | easy; presence of internal stresses; risk of splitting |
|---|---|
| Blunting effect | moderate |
| Drying | moderate to rapid; strong tendency to check, cup, twist and caseharden |
| Machining | difficult to plane in the presence of highly interlocked grain |
| Glueing | Good |
| Nailing | good |
| Finishing | good |
| Veneering | – |
