the Botanical name - Larix decidua
The English name - Larch
Sort of well-known coniferous trees from family pine (Pinaceae). Large trees, 30-35 m in height, with needles dumped for the winter. In a sort 10-12 (on other data, from above 20) the kinds extended in cold areas of Northern hemisphere (from the Himalayas to 71 ° with. sh.). In USSR L occupies enormous spaces, rising to the top border of wood in mountains and reaching on S extreme limits of distribution of wood vegetation. The greatest areas occupy larch Gmelina, or daurskaya (L. gmelini), and a larch Siberian (L. sibirica).
Larch wood melkosloinaya, golden-yellow and dark yellow colour with light brown and brown proveins, contains essence (pinen) and possesses strong enough, pleasant smell.
Larch wood fairly is considered an excellent building material. It, Wood L strong, elastic, firm, durable; well resists to decay and insects. The best wooden constructions are erected from this breed of a tree. It is used for manufacturing of joiner's products, window frames and for floor coverings. In larch wood the resinous substances complicating its processing and, in particular, a covering by a varnish contain many. Resinous substances complicate planing and polishing a little, but as a whole wood is successfully painted and polished after corresponding porozapolneniya. Before a covering poliuretanovymi varnishes drawing of the first coats excluding «podjig» wood is necessary.