What are the characteristics of Burmese pears?
2. Burmese rosewood, mainly distributed in Indochina Peninsula (Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, western Malaysia and Singapore), is a kind of hard, heavy and dense rosewood with large fruit. Its heartwood is generally orange red, brick red, purple red, yellow or light yellow, often with dark stripes.
3. The most striking feature is that the fruit aroma is rich, the aroma of new cut noodles is more obvious, and the aroma is long, mellow and unobtrusive; Large fruit rosewood has clear wood grain, fine and uniform structure, obvious tiger skin grain in some parts, intermittent and beautiful, red in color and red in wood grain, and looks like flesh color as a whole; In addition, after soaking in water, the extract of Pterocarya macrophylla showed obvious brown or light yellow.
4. Wood is porous or semi-porous, which is quite obvious in tree rings. Heartwood is orange, brick red, purplish red, yellow or light yellow, often with dark stripes; The wood structure is fine and the texture is staggered; The wave marks are slightly obvious or obvious under the magnifying glass, and the scratches are obvious; The sawdust water leaching solution is yellowish brown with weak or no fluorescence. The pores in the growth ring are large and visible to the naked eye; It often contains yellow sediment and has a strong aroma. Wood is antiseptic and insect-proof, and the board feels good.
The growing environment of Burmese pears;
Pears in Myanmar grow in tropical rain forests, seasonal tropical rain forests and monsoon forest in hilly areas at an altitude of 100-800 meters.
Its origin is tropical monsoon climate zone, with annual average temperature of 22-27℃ and annual rainfall of 1000-2000mm, with obvious rainy and dry seasons and no frost all year round. I like warm and humid tropical climate, can tolerate low temperature, and can safely spend the winter below 0℃.
Burmese rosewood has strong adaptability and can grow well in tropical and subtropical red soil, latosol, coastal sandy soil and alluvial soil in China.