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Blunting Effect
Boring
Comments
Common Names
Common Uses
Countries of Distribution
Cutting Resistance
Distribution Overview
Drying Defects
Ease of Drying
Environmental Profile
Family Name
Gluing
Grain
Heartwood Color
Kiln Drying Rate
Luster
Mortising
Moulding
Movement in Service
Nailing
Natural Durability
Numerical Data
Odor
Painting
Planing
Polishing
Product Sources
References
Regions of Distribution
Resistance to Impregnation
Response to Hand Tools
Sapwood Color
Scientific Name
Screwing
Silica Content
Staining
Steam Bending
Strength Properties
Texture
Trade Name
Tree Size
Turning
Veneering Qualities

Scientific Name
Cratoxylon formosum

Trade Name
Mampat

Family Name
Guttiferae

Wood Image 1

Common Names
Mampat

Regions of Distribution
Oceania and S.E. Asia

Countries of Distribution  [VIEW MAP]
Philippines

Common Uses
Beams, Charcoal, Cooperages, Fuelwood, Poles, Posts, Tool handles

Environmental Profile
Status unknown in many of its growth areas
Data source is World Conservation Monitoring Center


Distribution Overview
Southeast Asia in the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines.

Heartwood Color
Brown
Red
Yellow
Pink
Orange
Reddish brown
Purple tinge


Sapwood Color
White
Yellow
Brown
Red
Color not distinct from heartwood


Grain
Figure
Closed
Even
Other (figure)
Rays (figure)
Variable (figure)

Variable figure
Rays figure
Flat sawn surfaces seem like watered silk

Wood rays are fine, and are barely visible to the naked eye on end and tangential surfaces. Longitudinal surfaces are reported to have wavy, purple-red markings, which produce a watered-silk figure on flat-sawn surfaces.

Texture
Fine
Fine and uniform


Luster
High
Medium
Low


Natural Durability
Durable
Perishable
Moderately durable
Non-durable
Susceptible to insect attack
Resistant to powder post beetles
Moderately durable


Odor
No specific smell or taste


Silica Content
Likely to have significant impact on machining
Contains silica


Drying Defects
Distortion


Ease of Drying
Rapidly
Air-dries rather well


Kiln Drying Rate
Naturally dries quickly


Tree Size
Tree height is 30-40 m
Sapwood width is 0-5 cm
Tree height is 20-30 m
Tree height is 10-20 m
Tree height is 0-10 m
Sapwood width is 10-15 cm


Product Sources
Timber-sized trees of Mampat are too scarce for the species to be seriously considered as an important source of sawn timber.

Comments
Generally hard and heavy

Mampat timbers which are reported to consist of C. formosum and C

Blunting Effect
Little


Boring
Fair to good results
Fairly easy to very easy


Cutting Resistance
Easy to saw


Gluing
Fairly Easy to Very Easy


Mortising
Fairly Easy to Very Easy


Moulding
Fairly Easy to Very Easy


Movement in Service
Excellent Stability - Small Movement


Nailing
Fairly Easy to Very Easy
Pre-Boring Recommended
Fair to Good Results
Very Good to Excellent Results


Planing
Fairly Easy to Very Easy
Very Good to Excellent Results
Fair to Good Results
Easy to plane


Resistance to Impregnation
Resistant heartwood
Resistant sapwood
Permeable heartwood
Permeable sapwood


Response to Hand Tools
Easy to Work


Screwing
Fairly Easy to Very Easy
Very Good to Excellent Results
Fair to Good Results


Turning
Fairly Easy to Very Easy


Veneering Qualities
Veneers easily
Veneers moderately easy
Suitable for peeling


Steam Bending
Unsuitable
Poor to Very Poor Results


Painting
Fair to Good Results


Polishing
Fair to Good Results
Very Good to Excellent Results


Staining
Fair to Good Results
Very Good to Excellent Results


Strength Properties
Very heavy


Numerical Data
ItemGreenDryEnglish
Weight5343.lbs/ft3
ItemGreenDryMetric

References
Desch, H. E. 1957. Manual of Malayan Timbers - Volume I. Malayan Forest Records, No. 15. Malaya Publishing House Ltd., Singapore.

Schneider, E.E. 1916. Commercial Woods of the Philippines: Their Preparation and Uses. Bulletin No. 14. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Forestry, Manila, Philippines.