PROPERTIES:Inner side of bark dark red purple with white flour.Log surface irregularly fissured. bark:0.5~2.0 cm thick.Outer bark from grey to dark brown and falls off in pieces.Inner bark dark red brown with purple and long fibrous. wood:Heartwood not particulary distinct.Wood brown,red brown or dark red brown with purple,and sapwood pale.White deposits like chalk sometimes found in vessels and white stripes noticable on quartersawn and flatsawn faces. weight:Heavy/hard or very heavy/hard.A.D.0.57~1.10. grain:Interlocked or somewhat interlocked. texture:Construction,rafters,dunnage,plank piles and furniture.
