Family : MORACEAE (angiosperme)

Scientific name(s) : Milicia excelsa, Milicia regia

Description of the log 

• Diameter : de 80 à 100 cm
• Thickness of sapwood : de 5 à 10 cm
• Buoyancy : non flottable

Physical properties

• Density : 0.64
• Monnin hardness : 4.1
• Coeff. Voluminal withdrawal : 0.44%
• Total tangential withdrawal : 5.4%
• Total radial withdrawal : 3.5%
• Not saturation of fibres : 23%

Uses

• Clear-cut plating
• Interior wood finishing and external
• Current furniture
• Face et contre face de contreplaqué
• Skirting
• Parquet floor
• Naval construction (bordered and bridge)
• Furniture of luxury
• Cooperage-fermenting room
• Staircases (inside)
• Bridges (parts not in contact with the ground or ’water)
• Turned articles
• Light frame
• Lamellate-stuck
• Interior of plywood
• Fund of vehicle or container