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Clicking any heading in the main data area (at right) will scroll the page back to this top position. Use the following links to jump to the associated section in the main data. 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 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 Item Green Dry English Weight 53 43. lbs/ft3 Item Green Dry Metric 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.