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Timber yielding Plant
- 1. Timber Yielding Plant By: Mr Arjun Singh Guest lecturer Botany Likhan Sai Govt College Tapkara
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- 4. Tree yields anoleoresin called Sal Dammar or Bengal Dammar (Laldhuna ral, dhup, guggal) used as incense and also employed in paints and varnishes, and for caulking boats. It has been employed for hardening softer waxes for use in shoe-polishes, and for carbon papers and ribbons. Medicinally used as an astringent in diarrhoea and dysentery. Sal resin yields an essential oil called Chua oil, used as a fixative, and for flavouring chewing as well as smoking tobacco; also employed for ear troubles and cutaneous disease
- 5. Seeds eaten afterroasting; yield fatty oil, Sal butter, used locally for cooking and lighting and as an adulterant of ghee; also suitable as a substitute for cocoa butter in the manufacture of chocolates. Cake can be used as a feed for cattle and poultry.
- 6. Teak (Tectona grandis) Family-Lamiace Economicimportance Wood very durable, resistant to fungi. Used for poles, beams, trusses, columns, roofs, doors, window frames, flooring, planking, panelling, and staircases, and other constructional work.
- 7. One of thebest timbers for furniture and cabinet-making, wagon and railway carriages. Due to its better shape-retention ability, teak is popular in marine constructions and is a class by itself for boat- and ship building, particularly for decking. On account of its resistance to chemicals, teak articles are used in chemical laboratories; suitable for casks and vats for shipping corrosive liquids and for storing vegetable oils, fruit syrups, chutneys etc.
- 8. Teak is employedfor sound – boards of musical instruments, keys etc. and for Different grades of plywood. Wood waste in the form of wood- shavings and sawdust is used for chip-boards, fibreboards, and plastic boards. Leaves contain about 6% tannin and a dye; also used for thatching. Oily product Obtained by distillation of wood chips applied to eczema. Kernels yield fatty oil which is used in scabies and to promote the growth of hair. Flowers used in biliousness, bronchitis, and urinary discharges. Both flowers and Seeds considered diuretic. Bark astringent, used in bronchitis. Root bark used for colouring matting.
- 9. Shisham (Delbergia sissoo) •Family-fabaceae
- 10. Uses :- • Sissoois a high class furniture and cabinet wood widely Used throughout north India. • On account of its great strength elasticity and durability, it Is highly valued as constructional and general utility timber And is used for all the purpose for which Indian rosewood Is employed in the south. • Carefully slected and manufacturered plywood logs satisfy The specifications prescribed for aircraft and for this Purpose the wood form trees growing on canal banks and in plantations is considered to be the best.
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