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Ohio buckeye
Ohio buckeye (Aesculus glabra)

Family: Hippocastanaceae

Common names: Buckeye, Fetid buckeye, Ohio buckeye, Stinking buckeye

Distributed in: United States (North America)

Distribution overview: Grows in the midwestern US, from southern Michigan south to northern Alabama, western Pennsylvania west to Kansas, Oklahoma, and central Texas. Disjunct populations grwon in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Michigan. Ohio buckeye is a scattered tree of bottomlands, stream banks and other wet to mesic, cool sites; also in oldfields. It does not occur in pure stands, but as scattered individuals. It is shade tolerant and saplings are common in forest understories. Throughout its range, it is now common as a hedgerow species, particularly on limestone-derived soils.

Common uses: Boxes and crates, Carvings, Pulpwood, Turnery, Woodenware

Product sources: Commercial quantities of the wood are rather limited, and it is often sold as Buckeye in a mixture with other species. Adequate supplies of ripple-figured, stained buckeye are available for small projects.

Environment profile: Status unknown in many of its growth areas

Tree size: Tree height is 10-20 m

Colors: the heart isWhiteThe grain isWavy, the textureVery fine

Natural durability: Perishable, Very little natural resistance

Odor: No specific smell or taste

Kiln Schedules: 10 - F4 (4/4) T8 - F3 (8/4) U

Drying Defects: Slight checking and cracking, Splitting

Ease of Drying: Reconditioning Treatement

Comments: Generally strong and tough for its weight.

Boring: Fairly easy to very easy

Carving: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Cutting Resistance: Easy to saw

Mortising: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Moulding: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Movement in Service: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Planing: Responds well to all types of tools in most machining operations. Material with spiral grain is rather difficult to split into straight sticks

Routing recessing: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Turning: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Polishing: Very Good to Excellent; Staining: Fairly Easy to Very Easy;

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Item Green Dry Metric
Specific Gravity
Density kg/m3
Bending Strength kg/cm2
Crushing Strength kg/cm2
Hardness kg
Impact Strength cm
Shearing Strength kg/cm2
Stiffness 1000 kg/cm2
Tangential Shrinkage %
Radial Shrinkage %
Weight kg/m3
Maximum Load cm-kg/cm3
Toughness cm-kg
Static Bending kg/cm2
Item Green Dry English
Density 32 lbs/ft3

Density (dry weight) = 31-37 lbs/cu. ft.

Boone, R.S., C.J. Kozlik, P.J. Bois and E.M. Wengert. 1988. Dry Kiln Schedules for Commercial Woods: Temperate and Tropical. United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI.Constantine Jr., A. 1959. Know Your Woods. Revised Edition, 1975. Revised by H.J. Hobbs. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.Kline, M. 1978. Aesculus glabra - Ohio buckeye. In A Guide to Useful Woods of the World. Flynn Jr., J.H., Editor. King Philip Publishing Co., New York.Little, E.L.1980.The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees - Eastern Region.Published by Arthur A. Knopf, New York.
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