| Scientific Name | Dysoxylum malabaricum Bedd.ex Hiern |
| Trade Name | White cedar |
| Local Name | Vellakil,Akil |
| Family | Meliaceae |
| Tree Size | Very large |
| Tree Height ( m ) | 35 |
| Tree Diameter ( cm ) | 60 - 90 |
| Tree Distribution | West coast tropical evergreen and southern hill top tropical evergreen forests |
| Sapwood-Heartwood Distinction | Distinct |
| Sapwood Colour | Pale yellowish grey to white |
| Heartwood Colour | Yellowish |
| Hardness | Moderately hard |
| Specific Gravity Based on Weight Over-dry and Volume Green | 0.53 |
| Weight | Moderately heavy |
| Weight(Kg)/cubic meter at 12% Moisture Content | 720 |
| Texture | Fine textured |
| Grain | Straight to somewhat interlocked grain |
| Growth Rings | Demarcated by the presence of broad parenchyma bands |
| Porosity | Diffuse porous |
| Vessel Size | Small |
| Vessel Arrangement | Solitary and in radial multiples of two to three,rarely in clusters filled with yellowish deposits |
| Vessel Diameter | 150 - 200 175 |
| Vessel Element Lenght | 315 - 620 620 |
| Perforation | Simple |
| Pit Outline | Oval |
| Pit Size | Minute(3-4 µm),non-vestured |
| Vessel Ray Pitting | Alternate and pit outline oval |
| Ray Nature | Fine,visible under the lens,numerous and closely spaced |
| Ray Arrangement/Type | 1-3 seriate,heterogeneous type-3,showing a tendency to homogeneity.Body of ray made up of procumbent cells with a single marginal row of square cells. Uniseriate rays made wholly of square cells |
| Ray Number | 3 - 6 |
| Ray Height | 220 - 510 340 |
| Fibre Walls | Thin walled,septate; minute pits on radial walls |
| Fiber Length | |
| Modulus of Rupture in kg/cm2 (Green) | 661.2 |
| Modulus of Elasticity in kg/cm2 (Green) | 109200 |
| Modulus of Rupture kg/cm2 (Dry) | 1181.6 |
| Modulus of Elasticity in kg/cm2 (Dry) | 141300 |
| Uses | Furniture and cabinets, building and bridge construction, aircraft plywood, mathematical and engineering instruments, boards & panels, cooperage, window & door frames, carts & carriages, extraction of oil, planking, mine props and casks. |
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