‘y2sia4, 6:09 PM Inside Wood DAWA. Links > Search > Welcome About > Contact Contribute» Citing Us Image Viewing Hints Previous [back to search results] Next ZYGOPHYLLACEAE Balanites aegyptiaca (L.) Del Specimens: FW Bal aeg - ZYGOPHYLLACEAE Balanites acgyptiaca Pieter Baas Inst: NBC University Libraries E lens: 010 || Pieter Baas } i Inst: NBC ‘Kew.Museum 3620 - ZYGOPHYLLACEAE Balanites aegyptiaca dy vee: 010 i Peter Gasson i Inst: KEW. lens: 010, Peter Gasson Inst: KEW RHL 5213 - ZYGOPHYLLACEAE Balanites aegyptiaca htps:insidewoodlib.nosu eduldeseription?24 ts rs lens: 010 tens: 004 lens: 010 Pete: Gasson Pater Gasson Peter Gasson Inst KEW. Inst: KEW. Inst: KEW ts lens: 004 tens: 063, Pete: Gasson Pater Gasson Inst KEW. Inst: KEW. lens: 010 Peter Gasson Inst: KEW 18‘125124, 6:08 PM. Inside Wood ts x lens: 010 lens: 010 B reacnun Raimund OF Acsecuer Aicbaver OF inst wes Inst: wos sh Features: w 2 5 7 av ov 13 22 239 2av 28 30 a av 45y 47 522 532 34? 58 60 62 83 68 70 m0 12 78? 8 7 8 To Bev av 90 sw 98 99 102 106 107 ‘nov 4 120 yar 136 137 138 139 s40v 1420 164 Growth ring boundaries distinc, Growth ring boundaries indistinct or absent ‘Wood difuse-porous \Vessels in ciagonal and / or radial pattern Vessels in dondritc pattern Vessels exclusively soltary (90% or more) ‘Simple perforation plies Intervesse pits altemate Shape of alternate pits polygonal Minute - <= 4 ym ‘Small -4-7 um \Vessebray pits with distinc borders; similar to intervessel pits in size and shape troughout the ray cell 50-100 ym 4100 - 200 um ‘Vessels of two distinct diameter dasses, wood not ring-porous 5-20 vessels per square millimetre 350 ym Gums and other deposits in heartwood vessels Vascular vasicenti rachis present Fibres with dstinlly bordered pits Fibre pits common in both racial and tangential walls Non-septate fibres present Fibres very thick-walled <= 900 jm 1900-1600 umn >= 1600 ym ‘Axia parenchyma difuse ‘Axial parenchyma difuse-n-aggregates ‘Axial parenchyma scanty paratracheal ‘Axial parenchyma vasicentic ‘Axial parenchyma in narrow bands or Ines up to three cells wide ‘Axial parenchyma scalarform Fusitorm parenchyma cols ‘Two calls por parenchyma strane Larger rays commonly 4 -to 10 soriato Larger rays commonly > 10-serate Ray height > 1 mm Body ray calls procumbent with one row of upright and / or square marginal cells Body ray cells procumbent with mostly 24 rows of upright and /or square marginal cells Sheath cells ‘Axial parenchyma and /or vessel elements storied Fibres stoned Prismate crystals present Prismate crystals in upright and/or square ray cells Prismatic crystals in procumbent ray cells Prismatic crystals in radial algnment in procumbent ray cells Prismatic crystals in chambered upright and/or square ray cells Prismatte crystals in chambered axial parenchyma cells Europe and temperate Asia (Brazier and Franklin -egion 78) htps:insidewoodlib.nosu eduldeseription?24 28.‘y2si24, 6:09 PM. 166 168 169 178 179 189 194 196 199 Insige Wood -Meciterransan inckading Northern Africa and Middle East Central South Asia (Brazier and Franklin region 75) India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka ‘Tropical mainland Aftica and adjacent islands (Brazier and Franklin region 78) ‘Tropical Aca Tree Basic specie gravity medium, 0.40-0.75 Heartwood colour darker than sapwood colour Heartwood basically yellow or shades of yellow Reference: Détienne, P. West Africa Wood Coding. CIRAD. Unpublished, Image Viewing Hints Previous [back to search results] Noxt htps:insidewoodlib.nosu eduldeseription?24 33