Mahogany: properties and applications

The market has a lot of products made of rocks called mahogany. They are often quite expensive. However, only a small number of them have excellent operational characteristics of this mahogany - the breed of the family of the Meliev family.

The first to become widely known is the type of Makhagoni Sweetness, which is simply called mahogany, mogul or mahogany tree. This mahogany is common in the Antilles in the West Indies. Here it grows abundantly in lowlands and hills. This breed is very fond of fertile moistened soils. These are unusually large trees with a height of 30 to 45 meters. The diameter of the trunk is 2 m.

In the first few decades of the twentieth century, the mahogany was practically cut down. However, in the middle of the century, artificial plantations of mahogany were laid on a number of tropical islands of the Caribbean region. In addition, the British this breed was transported to India and to the island of Sri Lanka.

There is another kind of trees that fit the definition of "red". The wood is somewhat inferior in quality to mahogany, but its reserves, unlike the latter, are quite large. This is a large-leafed Swan, or a koab. It grows in Mexico, eastern Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia. In addition, this mahogany was transported by the same British to the islands of Fiji. And the third kind of American tree, which can be classified as "red" - Switenia humilis. It is common in El Salvador, in the southern regions of Mexico, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. As a material for the manufacture of various kinds of products, this species is known less than others.

In addition to American, there are African species of trees of the same breed as mahogany. Two types of such plants are common on this continent. The first of these is the genus Kaya. These are evergreen trees growing in Madagascar and the islands of Cape Verde. The most common breed is kaya mahogany, which is also called African kaoba or African mahogany. To the genus Kaya is also a fairly well-known species - akazhu white. It is named after the color of the bark and is a rather tall tree (15 - 50 m).

Another African family of the Meliev family is called Entadrophragma. Such varieties as sipo, saple and casino belong to it. Just like kaya, these are very large trees - up to 45 cm in height and up to 2 m in diameter at the bottom of the trunk.

The array of mahogany wood is used for finishing rooms and facing various kinds of structural elements (walls, doors, floor). Often this breed is used for the manufacture of various kinds of decorative interior items: figurines, masks, caskets. This wood is so valuable that not every master decides to take up the manufacture of this material, say, the same closet. Its main advantage lies in the ability to maintain its shape over the years. Such furniture is fabulously expensive.

In Russia, a real mahogany, photos of which can be seen a little higher, is almost impossible to meet on the market. In most cases, the maximum that our consumers can count on is a chest-grade variety, which is also called sugar. It is a yellowish-orange rock with a pleasant smell for humans, which is disastrous for insects.