Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society
Table 1 Mean wood anatomical characteristics of three trees of Tectona grandis from East Timor
From: Anatomical variation of teakwood from unmanaged mature plantations in East Timor
Features | Tree 1 | Tree 2 | Tree 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
Tissue proportion (%) | |||
Parenchyma | 16 | 13 | 13 |
Vessel | 12 | 11 | 13 |
Ray | 16 | 17 | 21 |
Fiber | 52 | 54 | 49 |
Fibers | |||
Length (mm) | 1.07 | 1.22 | 1.16 |
Width (µm) | 27.9 | 28.6 | 28.8 |
Wall thickness (μm) | 5.9 | 6.0 | 6.4 |
Lumen diameter (μm) | 16.5 | 16.9 | 16.3 |
Vessels | |||
Tangential diameter (earlywood) (µm) | 220.5 | 202.5 | 194.2 |
Tangential diameter (latewood) (µm) | 81.5 | 91.7 | 92.8 |
Length (µm) | 271 | 252 | 254 |
Mean area (µm2) | 16,683 | 19,339 | 17,801 |
Number of vessels per mm2 | 9 | 7 | 10 |
Intervessel pit diameter (µm) | 7 | 6 | 6 |
Rays | |||
Ray height (µm) | 741 | 565 | 622 |
Number of rays per mm2 | 10 | 9 | 11 |