the Botanical name - Tieghemella heckelii
Meets in a zone of damp long-boled woods in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Coast
Ivory, to Ghana
On the colour wood makore varies from pinkish to blood-red or red-brown. Fibres at some ranges straight lines, at others original motley drawing, occasionally with dark strokes is observed. A structure small, a surface glossy.
Wood viscous, rigid, strong and very durable. At processing all cutting tools, especially saws, quickly zatuplyayutsya, and the more strongly, than humidity of wood there is less. At planing of materials of radial sawing up cutting corners should be reduced to 20 ° in order to avoid rupture of fibres. Wood is well painted and polished, perfectly sticks together, but can rastreskivat'sya at zabivanii nails. It is used in furniture manufacture and for manufacturing of a decorative interline interval of a high class. It is applied to manufacturing of doors, armchairs, chairs, legs of tables, window sills, thresholds and a covering of floors, and also for a panel covering and facing works.
Volume weight in an air-dry condition: 650-700 kg/cubic metres