Indonesian Hardwood Trees

For the functions ulin wood is beneficial in construction field.

Indonesian hardwood trees. Ulin can be categorized as a giant tree species with height up to 30 meters and has 60 120 cm trunk diameters. Heartwood can also have a greenish hue. Teakwood tectona grandis is a tropical hardwood widely used for furniture especially in java indonesia. From all of hardwood species that available nowadays there are five types of wood that are often or commonly used by the carpenters or companies in indonesia as main material to make a wide range of furniture products such as tables chairs cabinets doors and many more.

Commonly with black veining and contrasting brown or reddish streaks. Older trees with buttresses up to 6 m high and reaching 2 m out from a bole. Heartwood ranges from a medium brown to nearly black. Ulin eusiderxylon zwageri ulin or belian as its famous nickname is a common trees in indonesia that grows in kalimantan island.

Latex used as glue and cement. Originates from evergreen forest at 400 1 200 m altitude. Sharply demarcated sapwood is a pale yellow to tan color and is typically present on most pieces. But it has been spread quickly in the tropical countries.

It s a delight to watch large boats made out of hardwood trees raced over the water on this special day. Timber medium hardwood termite resistant. A teak tree can grow up to 40 meters high with a diameter of up to 1 5 meter. Unfortunately these big diameters are rarely found since the trees are cut down long before that to make the furniture.

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. In fact it grows faster than other any type of hardwood. Hardwood is wood from dicot trees these are usually found in broad leaved temperate and tropical forests. Diend cultural festival is mainly celebrated in the dieng plateau of java and there is a reason for that.

The color is a combination of black and brown color with a contrast vein or grain on the wood itself. Renowned for a number of medical properties. 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. Suar or saman samanea is actually a south american native.

Another popular indonesian celebrations occur here in the month of august. 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.