Botanical names - Intsia bijuqa, Intsia palembanica.
English and German names - Merbau.
Trees reach heights of 50 metres and diameter of a trunk of 150 centimetres. Grow in Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Moluccas, island New Guinea). The African breed very close on properties to merbau - dussiya.
The basic tone of colouring merbau - red-brown, from light to dark, places with an impregnation of yellow proveins.
Wood contains oily substances, very firm, is steady against moisture influence, cracks a little. Thanking these properties merbau it is used, in particular, for the device of decks and furnish of premises on sea courts and yachts. In parquet floors as on the properties, and aesthetically merbau it is very well combined with an oak. Merbau does not represent the big complexity in sawing up, planing and it can well be polished. Wood merbau often has a svilevato-layered arrangement of fibres, paternal after polishing and a covering the varnish creates unique visual effect. While in service merbau darkens (especially more light sites) therefore wood colouring as a whole is levelled. Wood merbau is elegantly decorative, that allows to use it for creation of exclusive interiors. At contact to iron and water on wood merbau can appear
Black stains. For prevention of formation of cracks by an obligatory condition drilling of apertures under nails and screws is. Volume weight in an air-dry condition: 670-1040 kg/cubic metres