the Botanical name - Arbutus menziesii
The English name - Strawberrytree, the Spanish name - madrono.
Growth places - the USA. In the North America along Pacific coast from Canada to California and Mexico.
Mature wood happens krasnovato-brown, knots of a radical part (komlya) are very dense are located.
part
Madrona (Tree strawberry)
Inflated dreveseny
wood Swelling - ability to increase in the sizes at saturation by a moisture. Early wood (English - early wood) - a part of a year ring which is formed in an early stage of the period of growth. Less dense and more light, than late wood. Svilevatost' - a wavy, chaotic arrangement of fibres of wood.
Core (English - pith) - the narrow central part of a trunk consisting of a friable (soft) fabric, characterised brown or more light, than at surrounding wood, colour.
Serdcevinnyi a beam (English - ray) - lentopodobnoe formation from the cages, directed radially in relation to growth layers.
