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Indian white cedar
Indian white cedar (Dysoxylum malabaricum)

Family: Meliaceae

Common names: Bili devdari, Bombay white cedar, Devagarige, Indian white cedar, Porapa, Vella agil, Velley agil

Distributed in: India (Oceania and S.E. Asia)

Distribution overview: Grows in the evergreen forests of the Western Ghats, North Kanara, Coorg, Anamalais, and Travancore regions in India.

Common uses: Building construction, Building materials, Casks, Construction, Cooperages, Furniture , Furniture components, Furniture squares or stock, Interior construction, Joinery, Light construction, Rough construction

Environment profile: Status has not been officially assessed

Tree size: Tree height is 40-50 m

Colors: the heart isWhite, Yellowand the sapwoodWhite, Yellow.The grain isWavy, the textureSlightly coarseand the lusterMedium

Natural durability: Resistant to powder post beetles, Susceptible to insect attack

Odor: Typically scented

Kiln Drying Rate: Naturally dries quickly

Drying Defects: Checking, Distortion

Ease of Drying: Rapidly

Comments: The wood is described as moderately hard to hard and strong, with stiffness strength about equal to that of Burma teak (Tectona granids ). Maximum crushing strength is rated as about 19 percent below that of teak. It is used locally for purposes for which good quality, but not especially attractive, timber is required

Blunting Effect: Little

Boring: Fairly easy to very easy

Cutting Resistance: Moderate to saw

Gluing: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Nailing: Fairly Easy to Very Easy, Very Good to Excellent

Planing: Very Good to Excellent

Resistance to Impregnation: Permeable sapwood

Response to hand tools: Fairly Difficult to Difficult to Work

Veneering qualities: Veneers easily, Veneers moderately easy

Turning: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Polishing: Very good;

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Item Green Dry Metric
Specific Gravity 0,54 0,62
Density kg/m3
Bending Strength 825 kg/cm2
Crushing Strength 452 kg/cm2
Hardness kg
Impact Strength cm
Shearing Strength kg/cm2
Stiffness 123 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
Bending Strength 11745 psi
Maximum Crushing Strength 6434 psi
Stiffness 1755 1000 psi
Specific Gravity 0.54 0.62
Weight 50 43 lbs/ft3


Desch, H. E. 1954. Manual of Malayan Timbers - Volume II. Malayan Forest Records, No. 15. Malaya Publishing House Ltd., Singapore.Kloot, N. H. and E. Bolza.1961.Properties of Timbers Imported into Australia.Technological Paper No. 12.Division of Forest Products, Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization, Melbourne, Australia.Troup, R.S. 1909. Indian Woods and Their Uses. The Indian Forest Memoirs, Economic Products Series, Volume 1, No. 1. Superintendent, Government Printing, Calcutta, India.
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