Corak beberapa jenis kayu perdagangan Indonesia

Abstract

INTRODUCTION. Total destruction of forests by 2005 is estimated up to 59.1 million ha. To overcome the problem, government through the Forestry Department launched an industrial forest program and plantation forest program. Industrial forest program development is generally higher priority to meet the needs of raw materials for pulp and paper industry. Plantation forest timber generally has short sortimen, small diameter, high ratio of juvenile wood and mature wood. From these characteristics can be concluded that the plantation forest timber, unsuitable for construction raw materials. So that the plantation forest timber with these characteristics can be utilized for the furniture industry raw materials. Some specific criteria of the furniture industry raw materials are a beautiful pattern on the wood. Appearances pattern on the wood are closely related to the constituent of wood anatomical structure. This study aimed to observe the kind of anatomical structures that caused the appearance of decorative figure.