The world's most expensive wood

Water pod bean timber

Wooden pod beans (Xylia xylocarpa) or wood pod beans (Xylia SPP), legumes (Leguminosa) Mimosoideae (or acacia subfamily) (Minosoideae) wooden pod beans are (Xylia) of high-quality species. English name: PYINKADO, CAMXE, RUL, BURMESIRONWOOD so. Do not number: VIP card number, Myanmar, iron wood and so on.
- Distribution or principal place of origin: water pod bean tree about 12 species distributed in tropical Africa, Madagascar to tropical Asia, common species of wood pod beans (X.sxylocarpa), g child wooden pod beans (X.kelrrii ) two kinds. Wood pod beans (Xyliaxylocarpa) mainly in India, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and other countries, introduction and cultivation of China's Hainan also.

- Characteristics and Wood: Heartwood and Sapwood differentiated significantly, light red sapwood white or light gray-white; heart wood red-brown band from the dark stripes. Slightly the growth ring. Diffuse porous materials, pore size of the medium; a single pore and the pore diameter column complex, containing a dark-colored gums into the sediment. Ring-shaped bundle of axial parenchyma (typical), Utah-shaped, poly wing-shaped and star-shaped bulk or partially-round community. Wood-ray vertical, slightly dense; trails streak was not significant; chord surface waves seen. Shiny wood, no special flavor and taste; interlaced texture, structure, little machines, corrosion-resistant, durability. Hard material weight, high strength, air-dry density of 0.83-1. 18g/Cm3. Obvious features of this wood a dark hole for the tube jelly often overflow resulting from the surface of Run-Shan greasy sticky feeling.

Merbau 


Intsia (Intsia bijags) or merbau Class (llltsia ssp), legumes (Leguminosae) Su

Wood subfamily (Caesalpinoidea) Indian nightshade (Intsia) of high-quality species. English name MERBAU, MIRABOW so. Do not number: Boluo Ge, Pacific iron wood and so on.

- The distribution or primary origin: there are about nine kinds of merbau species type, distributed in tropical Africa's east coast (along the

Sea island) taken back to the Asian tropics, or low-lying areas along the coast, common tree species merbau (l.bijnga), Yan's Indian Ru (I.paiembaniea) two kinds. Intsia (Intsia bijuga) mainly in India and nisou Gate A 

December to the Pacific island of New Guinea.

- Characteristics and wood properties: a significant difference between cardiac side of the village, sapwood yellowish white to gray; heartwood reddish-brown to pale chestnut brown, with dark stripes ribbon. Slightly the growth ring. Diffuse porous materials, pore size of the medium and short-hole diameter column pore complex, rich inclusions. Axial as ink and organizations significantly, showing ring tube, wing-like, a few poly-shaped and round circles like, wood-ray small, many; diameter surface markings was not significant, no string surface ripples. Wood shiny, days of special flavor and taste; interlaced texture, structure, slightly thick, corrosion-resistant, durability. Hard material weight, high strength, air-dry density 0.75-O94g/Cm. The obvious features of the water timber for the pipe hole yellow sulfur deposits is extremely significant; pass easily iron and water discoloration.

Decorative wood - a gall of this



Gall wood in botany was not referring to timber species, but to the roots or the trunk area to the cancer nodules parts of the timber, for the trees, the nature of proliferation results. Gall tumor strange texture, with a special twisted pattern, and sometimes contains a small section of the majority of the growth-like objects ", the highly ornamental.

 

Gall number of wood species, by species divided into Pear Gall, Phoebe Gall, birch gall. Elm gall, gall camphor, etc.; divided according to the texture gall walnut, grape gall, sesame gall, gall and other landscapes, Guangdong has the size of their shape, said Ma eyes, cat's eye, birds eye, mountain grain and so on. Among them, pear gall (AMBOYNA) the most expensive, form and color exactly like ripe grapes, is the production of dark hardwood furniture, a very expensive luxury decorative timber.