enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Kapur (wood) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapur_(wood)

    Kapur (or kapor) is a dipterocarp hardwood from trees of the genus Dryobalanops found in lowland tropical rainforests of Malaysia, Indonesia and South-East Asia. [1] It is a durable construction tropical timber. One variety, D. aromatica, is a source of camphor.

  3. Hornbeam - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornbeam

    The common English name hornbeam derives from the hardness of the woods (likened to horn) and the Old English beam, "tree" (cognate with Dutch Boom and German Baum).. The American hornbeam is also occasionally known as blue-beech, ironwood, or musclewood, the first from the resemblance of the bark to that of the American beech Fagus grandifolia, the other two from the hardness of the wood and ...

  4. Hardwood - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardwood

    Hardwood from deciduous species, such as oak, normally shows annual growth rings, but these may be absent in some tropical hardwoods. [3] Hardwoods have a more complex structure than softwoods and are often much slower growing as a result. The dominant feature separating "hardwoods" from softwoods is the presence of pores, or vessels. [4]

  5. Neobalanocarpus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neobalanocarpus

    Neobalanocarpus is a monotypic genus of plants in the family Dipterocarpaceae.The single species, Neobalanocarpus heimii, is a tropical hardwood tree. Common names for the tree and its wood products include chengal, chan ta khien, chi-ngamat, takian chan, and takian chantamaeo.

  6. Mahogany - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahogany

    Honduran mahogany tree, Swietenia macrophylla Wood from Honduran mahogany. Mahogany is a straight-grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwood species of the genus Swietenia, indigenous to the Americas [1] and part of the pantropical chinaberry family, Meliaceae. Mahogany is used commercially for a wide variety of goods, due to its ...

  7. Old School RuneScape - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_School_RuneScape

    Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.

  8. Stocking (forestry) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stocking_(forestry)

    When stocking, a tree's basal area is measured. The basal area is a cross-sectional area of the stump taken about 4.5 feet (1.4 m) above the ground. [7] The equation for calculating the basal area of trees in a stand is Basal Area = 0.005454 DBH 2, where DBH is the diameter of the tree at the aforementioned measuring height. [7]

  9. List of woods - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_woods

    Bead-tree, white cedar, Persian lilac (Melia azedarach) Maple (Acer) Hard maple Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) Black maple (Acer nigrum) Soft maple Boxelder (Acer negundo) Red maple (Acer rubrum) Silver maple (Acer saccharinum) European maple Sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus) Marblewood (Marmaroxylon racemosum) Marri, red gum (Corymbia calophylla)