Mengkulang

by TDUK|04 September 2230 April 24

The sapwood is yellow to light brown in colour, clearly defined from the heartwood, which is pinkish-brown, but more commonly reddish-brown or dark brown. Planed surfaces are lustrous, and quarter-sawn surfaces are marked with moderately conspicuous reddish flecks caused by the fairly large rays. The grain is straight to shallowly...

Maple, Soft

by TDUK|04 September 2230 April 24

Soft maple is straight-grained and fine textured. The heartwood is light reddish-brown with deeper-coloured late-wood bands. The sapwood is white in colour, and furnishes the white maple prized for certain uses. It differs mainly from the hard maples in its lower density and softer texture.

Maple, Rock

by TDUK|04 September 2230 April 24

Hard maple is strong, heavy, hard, straight-grained and fine textured. The heartwood is light reddish-brown with deeper-coloured late-wood bands. The sapwood is white in colour, and furnishes the white maple prized for certain uses. It differs mainly from the soft maples in its greater density and firmer texture.

Limba

by TDUK|04 September 2230 April 24

Usually both the heartwood and sapwood are light yellowish- brown in colour, similar to light oak. Occasionally, however, the heartwood contains irregular greyish markings, with streaks which may be almost black (the cause of these markings is not known) Such timber is very attractive in appearance and fetches good prices,...

Larch, Siberian

by TDUK|04 September 2204 April 24

The heartwood is pale reddish-brown to brick-red in colour, sharply defined from the narrow, lighter-coloured sapwood. It is a very resinous wood, with clearly marked annual rings. It has a straight grain, a fine, uniform texture and is rather heavy, weighing 590 kg/m3 when dried, it is likely that plantaion...

Larch, Japanese

by TDUK|04 September 2204 April 24

The colour of the wood closely resembles that of European larch, being reddish-brown with clearly marked annual rings. Under European growth conditions the growth is often fairly rapid, resulting in a generally lighter weight than that of European larch and averaging 560 kg/m3 when dried.

Jelutong

by TDUK|04 September 2230 April 24

The sapwood and heartwood are not differentiated by colour. The wood is creamy-white when first cut turning a pale straw colour after exposure. The planed wood is lustrous or very lustrous, without any figure, but slit-like radial passages may be seen on tangential surfaces as lens-shaped bodies. These are latex...

Hickory

by TDUK|04 September 2229 April 24

All the species are similar in appearance; the sapwood is white, and usually wide, and is generally preferred, while the heartwood is brown or reddish-brown in colour. The grain is straight, and only occasionally wavy or irregular, and the texture is coarse, not unlike ash in general appearance. The true...

Hemlock, Western

by TDUK|04 September 2204 April 24

Neither the tree nor the timber bears close similarity to eastern hemlock. The timber of western hemlock is pale brown in colour and somewhat lustrous, with a straight grain and fairly even texture, non-resinous and non-tainting when dried, it has a faint sour odour when freshly sawn. The darker-coloured late-wood...

Gaboon

by TDUK|04 September 2229 April 24

Gaboon is one of the most useful hardwoods and is used in large quantities for plywood and blockboard. As it has a fairly close resemblance to African mahogany, it has been known as gaboon mahogany, but since it is unrelated to the true mahoganies the description is misleading and should...

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