Indonesian Hardwood Trees

Hardwood is wood from dicot trees these are usually found in broad leaved temperate and tropical forests.

Indonesian hardwood trees.

Most recognized country which claims suar wood cultivation are thailand hawaii latin america and indonesia. Sharply demarcated sapwood is a pale yellow to tan color and is typically present on most pieces. Outer bark brown or yellowish white smooth. Renowned for a number of medical properties.

It s a delight to watch large boats made out of hardwood trees raced over the water on this special day. Unfortunately these big diameters are rarely found since the trees are cut down long before that to make the furniture. The hardwood is also called as rain tree and monkey pod. Timber medium hardwood termite resistant.

Teakwood tectona grandis is a tropical hardwood widely used for furniture especially in java indonesia. Indonesian mahogany suren toona sureni sapele entandrophragma cylindricum sipo utile entandrophragma utile tiama entandrophragma angolense kosipo entandrophragma candollei mountain mahogany bottle tree entandrophragma caudatumi indian mahogany chickrassy chittagong wood chukrasia velutina. The color is a combination of black and brown color with a contrast vein or grain on the wood itself. This wood has been used as a building material to make stage house rumah panggung for indonesian local people to make jewelry or even sculptures.

Citation needed in temperate and boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous but in tropics and subtropics mostly evergreen hardwood which come from angiosperm trees contrasts with softwood which are from gymnosperm trees. For the functions ulin wood is beneficial in construction field. Latex used as glue and cement. Diend cultural festival is mainly celebrated in the dieng plateau of java and there is a reason for that.

Another popular indonesian celebrations occur here in the month of august. Ulin can be categorized as a giant tree species with height up to 30 meters and has 60 120 cm trunk diameters. Suar or saman samanea is actually a south american native. Originates from evergreen forest at 400 1 200 m altitude.

But it has been spread quickly in the tropical countries. Heartwood can also have a greenish hue. Heartwood ranges from a medium brown to nearly black. Older trees with buttresses up to 6 m high and reaching 2 m out from a bole.

Commonly with black veining and contrasting brown or reddish streaks. A teak tree can grow up to 40 meters high with a diameter of up to 1 5 meter.