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Relationships among selected wood properties of 20-year-old Taiwania (Taiwania cryptomerioides) trees

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The relationships between bending properties, compressive strength, tracheid length, microfibril angle, and ring characteristics of 20-year-old Taiwania (Taiwania cryptomerioides Hay.) trees were examined. The trees came from different thinning and pruning treatments, but the practices showed no significant effect on the investigated properties. The results showed that based on comparison with the literature, plantation-grown immature Taiwania have noticeably lower average strength properties than mature trees of the same species. Wood density and bending and compressive strengths were not related to either tracheid length or microfibril angle in young Taiwania. There were positive relationships between bending strength and compressive strength. The wood density, ring width, earlywood width, earlywood density, and latewood percentage were the most important predictors of strength by simple linear regressions. The wood density and ring width/earlywood width may be considered as indicators for assessing the bending strength, while wood density and latewood percentage were the best predictors of compressive strength by multiple linear regressions.

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    Chih-Ming Chiu

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Lin, CJ., Chiu, CM. Relationships among selected wood properties of 20-year-old Taiwania (Taiwania cryptomerioides) trees. J Wood Sci 53, 61–66 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10086-006-0819-y

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