Chinese Name: Cylindrical African Neem
Latin name: Entandrophragma cylindricum
English name: sapclc, sapclli.
Name: Sapelewood, Sapele, Sapelli, Aboudikro, Liboyo, Penkwa
Common name: Shapiri, Redwood, Phantom Wood
Families and genera: Meliaceae, Azadiraceae, tubular Azadiraceae. Commodity materials of this genus include Azadiraceae, Azadiraceae and Azadiraceae.
Melia tuberosa is a tree with few roots. The height is 45 m, the trunk is straight, the height under branches is 12-21 m, and the diameter at breast height is over 100 cm. It is found in tropical Africa (Aboudikro (Czech Republic), Penkwa (Ghana) and Sapelli-wood, Sapelli-mahagoni, Ubilesan (Nigeria) to Sapelli (Cameroon), east to Muyovu (Uganda) and Undianuno (Angola, Congo).
Large trees, without or without roots; 45 m in height, straight trunk, 12-21 m under branches; 100 cm in diameter at breast height, thin longitudinal shallow grooves are common on the surface of timber. There are 9 species of hardwoods in this genus, which have grown into timber for nearly a thousand years. Distribution in the dry and wet season of tropical Africa, mainly from Aboudikro (Cvory Coast), Penkwa (Ghana) and Sapelli-wood, Sapelli-mahagoni, Ubilesan (Nigeria) to Sapelli (Cameroon), east to Muyovu (Uganda) and Undianuno (Angola, Congo) imports.
It is a tree with few roots. As high as 45m. The breast diameter usually exceeds 1.0m. Wood is loose porous wood. The new section of heartwood is reddish-brown, which gradually changes to mahogany-like reddish-brown or rust-brown with atmospheric oxidation, and the sapwood is light red to light yellow-white with a width of 6-11 cm. The wood is lustrous; the air-dried wood, especially the fresh cut, has a strong toon-like aroma (the bark is the same), and has no special taste. The texture is slightly interlaced and wrinkled; there are obvious dark stripe or intermittent stripe patterns on the diametral section of other Meliaceae species, and the ripple patterns formed by the wavy texture are also sometimes seen; the structure is fine to medium and uniform. It is 1.0-1.5 cm thick, hard and fragrant, and has a thin, crisp, light reddish-brown, slightly grayish-white skin. Endothelial red-brown; phloem fibers are more developed, lignified near the epidermis, easy to separate into sheets near the surface of wood, rich in stone cells.
Wood is moderately resistant to decay, termites and beetles, and preservatives for heartwood are extremely difficult to impregnate. Drying speed is medium to fast, slight cracking and deformation defects occur. Processing is not difficult, texture is slightly interlaced, tool edge is easy to blunt, suitable for alloy steel saw blade; good adhesion, coating and sanding; rotary cutting, throwing cutting, glue, nail gripping, paint, sanding, coloring performance is good.
At present, there are often some fake Shapiri timber on the market to deceive consumers, mainly good wood Azadirachta, Azadirachta grandis, Azadirachta angolana and Azadirachta congolica. In fact, these species belong to Azadirachta, and the real Shapirachta should be tubular Azadirachtha. The logs and boards of these species are similar in appearance, but their prices can vary considerably.
Shabili is suitable for throwing thin wood, rotary cutting veneer, wood lines; high strength, high air density, strong hardness, durability, termite resistance, suitable for making floors and high-grade furniture, interior decorative accessories and wall panels; cabinets, indoor and outdoor joinery products, doors and windows; ships, high-grade musical instruments and planed decorative veneers. 树皮表面具有不规则浅凹坑。 The cross section of logs is often rusty. Diameter panel has deep and shallow ribbon pattern and changeable ribbon luster, so it presents Chinese traditional landscape painting and ink painting color, with strong three-dimensional sense of straight lines, and obvious ripple marks on the rotary section. Bark and wood have rosin flavor.