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Timber cut from old teak trees was once believed to be more durable and harder than plantation-grown teak. Studies have shown that plantation teak performs on par with old-growth teak in erosion rate, dimensional stability, warping, and surface checking, but is more susceptible to colour change from UV exposure. [20]
However, studies from the United States Forest Service USDA [2] and the Forest Research Institute at Dehra Dun, India [3] found no significant relationship between the growth rate of plantation teak and its density. However, to match the wood grain of Burmese teak, some forestry experts recommend a process called slow growth cultivation.
Proteak is a forestry company that cultivates teak trees on plantations located on reclaimed ranch lands in the dry tropical regions of Mexico and Latin America.Based out of Mexico City, Mexico, Proteak has satellite offices in Wimberley, Texas and Tepic, Mexico.
The Forestry Commission’s Forest Research agency has developed a new tree species guide for UK agroforestry systems with the University of Reading, providing information on 33 species of trees ...
"Social Forest: Oaks of Tovaangar," created in partnership with North East Trees, Gabrielino/Tongva archaeologist Desireé Reneé Martinez and artist Lazaro Arvizu Jr., extends Beuys' ideas and ...
They are large trees, growing to 30–40 m (90–120 ft.) tall, deciduous in the dry season. Tectona grandis is an economically important species which is the source of most commercial teak wood products.
Moderately hard, teak is durable and fire-resistant. It can be easily seasoned and worked. It takes up a good polish and is not attacked by white ants and dry rot. It does not corrode iron fastenings and it shrinks little. It is among the most valuable timber trees of the world and its use is limited to superior work only. Toon, Red Cedar [20]
An insatiable demand for teak coupled with endemic corruption in the Burmese timber sector led to rapacious logging in Myanmar’s forests — among the last remaining jungles of old-growth teak.