Yakal tree

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PHILIPPINES SAIJIKI

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Yakal tree

***** Location: Philippines
***** Season: Topic
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation


Yakal tree - Shorea astylosa

Yakal is a medium to large tree about 25 to 30 meters tall.
Its wood is hard and dark brownish-yellow.

Branchlets are rather slender, blackish, and slightly hairy.

Leaves are coriaceous, ovate to lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate or apex acuminate; the base is rounded to cuneate, glabrous above, and slightly hairy underneath. Its blade is 6.5-nine centimeters long and two-4.5 centimeters wide. The petiole is slender, 10-23 millimeters long, and dark.

Inflorescence are axilllary, paniculate, and up to about six centimeters long. The flowers of yakal are yellow, very short-stalked, and about 12 millimeters long. Petals narrowly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, more or less twisted in bud, rounded at apex, 18 millimeters long, and reticulate.

Yakal is commonly found in Luzon, particularly Quezon and Camarines; Samar; Negros; and Mindanao, particularly Zamboanga, Agusan, and Davao. It can also be found in primary forests at low altitudes.

source : greenin-philippines



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Shorea laevis
Yakal is a hard and golden Mahogany type which is used for frequently used products and surfaces. Ideal for outdoor use also.

MORE about wood from the Philippines
source : www.idewood.com


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU


church service...
yakal blossoms
falling

- Shared by Willie Bongky -
Joys of Japan, 2013



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