Skip to main content

Indian rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia)

Sonokeling or Java palisandre or Indian rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia) is a kind of tree belonging to Fabaceae, a producer of beautiful hardwood and high quality. This medium weight wood in trade comes from medium to large trees, 20-40 meters high with 1.5-2 meters tall.

D. latifolia has a dome-shaped dense canopy and leaves off during the dry season. The outer skin is brownish gray and has a slightly longitudinal crack. The odd pinnate compound leaves with 5-7 sub-leaves which are not the same size and intersect on the shaft.

Dlium Indian rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia)

The sub-leaves are dense-shaped wide, green on the upper side and grayish on the lower side. Small flowers have a length of 0.5-1 cm, collected in panicles in the limb armpit. Pods have 1-4 brown seeds, elongated and tapered lancets. Leaves for animal feed and green manure. Rooting binds nitrogen and improves soil fertility.

Indian rosewood grow wild in forests at altitudes below 600 meters above sea level, especially in rocky, infertile, and dry soils regularly. Growing in groups, but not too much in the seasonal forests that shed leaves in the dry season.

Sonokeling is a hard tree and has a specific gravity of 0.77 to 0.86 at a moisture content of around 15%. Fine texture with straight fiber direction and sometimes choppy. This wood is also durable, resistant to dry wood termites and very resistant to wood rot mold.



Wood has beautiful patterns, purple dotted black or purplish black with reddish brown tones. The surface can be shaved to slippery, peeled and sliced for decorative. This wood can also be turned, screwed and decorative veneers used to coat the surface of expensive plywood.

Java palisandre is commonly used for furniture, cupboards, carved items, lathe, musical and sports equipment, umbrella handles, walking sticks and others. Wood is strong, durable and often used for construction of frames, doors, windows, trains, ax handles, hammers, machines and parquet floors.

Sonokeling is one of the most popular agroforestry plants and is grown in the intercropping system to be interspersed with a variety of food crops including rice, corn, cassava and beans. This plant is also a tree making agroforestry with mango, jackfruit, soursop, guava and others.

Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Dalbergia
Species: D. latifolia
Labels:

Comments

  1. UnknownDecember 17, 2019 at 8:19 AM

    Respected Sir,
    इसके authentic पौधे कहां से प्राप्त करें, समुचित जानकारी दे......
    दीपक शर्मा
    मुजफ्फरपुर,बिहार

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular

God is tools

OPINION - God and spirit are controversial discussions in science and even mythology will have no place among naturalists and for Darwinians. Apparently this has been final that mythology is a delusional, mystical and superstitious concept that cannot be empirically proven in the world of science.

Most scientists and science activists have agreed that god is nonsense, delusional and cannot be accommodated in the theory of evolution. This opinion can be understood methodologically and I agree with the sentences. But so many behaviors are very real and occur in the field.


I am a fieldman who goes to the wild every day, along rice fields and forests to watch insects to plants, talk to people especially in villages, visit Hindu-Buddhist temples built in the 8th century, witnessing busyness in mosques, temples and churches.

I feel something is missing in the view of naturalists and Darwinians. There are short moments that are missed in analyzes in the timeline of human evolution. These lit…
2 comments
Read more

Porang (Amorphophallus muelleri)

Porang or iles-iles (Amorphophallus muelleri) is a plant species in Araceae, the leaves are pseudo stems with a height of 40-180 cm and a diameter of 1-5 cm, tubular, green with irregular white patches, each branching point grows bulbil colored brown and yellow tubers.

A. muelleri has pseudo stems and leaves that are bright green to dark green and have greenish white patches. The surface of the stalk is smooth, while the leaves are smooth wavy. Ellipse-shaped leaves with pointed tips.


When flushing has 3, 4-5, 5-6 and finally 6 minor leaf strands with 3 small leaf stems. Young leaves have edges that are light purple, green and will end yellow with a width of 0.3-0.5 mm. Canopy has a width of 50-150 cm.

Stems grow on tubers with a diameter of 25-50 mm and height 75-175 cm. The color of the tuber is brownish or beige on the outer surface and brownish on the inside, rather oval and stringy roots, weight 450-3350 grams, fine tissue, 4-5 months dormant period and 35-55% glucomannan content.

…
Post a Comment
Read more

Javanese grasshopper (Valanga nigricornis)

Wooden grasshoppers or wooden walang or Javanese grasshopper (Valanga nigricornis) are grasshopper species in Acrididae and have around 18 subspecies, most of which are endemic to various island groups in Indonesia. This insect has a very broad sexual dimorphism where males have a length of 45-55 millimeters and females 15-75 mm.

V. nigricornis is yellowish brown or yellowish or green with bluish black marks. The back wing is rose red when flying. The nymphs are pale green and dark. They live in forests, bushes and really like the leaves of the giant sensitive plant (Mimosa diplotricha) and giant sensitive tree (Mimosa pigra).


Javanese grasshopper has one generation every year where four eggs are placed on moist soil in forest clearing. The eggs are not active throughout the dry season and it takes six to eight months to hatch.

The eggs hatch into nymphs and pass seven instar stages before becoming winged adults. Wood grasshoppers are solitary insects and do not form flocks, but outbre…
Post a Comment
Read more