| BRIEF DESCRIPTION Usually a medium-sized evergreen tree reaching a height of 8-25 m but it may become up to 55 m tall. The crown is pyramidal when young, narrow, half of the tree length, dense, with thin branches. Stem cylindrical and straight, often forked with a diameter of up to 0.75 cm or even up to 2.5 m, sometimes with buttresses. USES The timber is durable and used for house and ship building, railroad sleepers, electric and telephone line poles, barrels, furniture, wood carvings, and fuelwood and charcoal. The tree can be grown as an ornamental shade tree, for soil cover and the bark, leaves and twigs have medicinal properties. GROWING PERIOD Perennial. COMMON NAMES Tembusu, Ironwood, Kayu tammusu, Ki badak, Ambinaton, Tembesu, Tembesu padang, Tembesu hutan, Reriang, Urung, Uring, Dolo, Susulin, Anan, Tatrao, Man paa, Tam sao, Kankrao, Trai. FURTHER INF Scientific synonym: F. peregrina, F. gigantea, F. cochinchinensis, F. sororia. Tembusu is widespread in most of South-East Asia. It occurs in the lowland, often as a pioneer on burned-over areas, in imperata-infested fields and in light, secondary forests and on the beach. Total volume production may be about 5 m3/ha per year. (pH estimated by the compiler). |
