Mindi Wood Furniture

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Mindi probably not-so-familiar name of wood, but it is used as material for furniture. Similar to teak, mindi also has beautiful color and grain to expose. So what mindi is?

Mindi whose scientific name is Melia azedarach, and it is actually white cedar wood. Mindi is a local name in Indonesia, it is also known as Umbrella tree, Persian Lilac or Chinaberry in other regions. The wood is native from South East Asia and Australia, also grown in plantation acroos Indonesia. Mindi is kind of hardwood, easily plantation grown.

It is a deciduous that shedding the leaves annually. Nonetheless, it is a shade tree with a rounded crown, which able to reach 12 meters of height at maturity also six to eight meters of width, and more for some in its natural habitation. Mindi has reddish brown colors that similar to Mahogany; as they belong to mahogany family Meliaceae. White reddish color in its cambium that distinguishing between wood elements and cambium.

Mindi high quality timber has been used for many purposes, including mindi wood furniture. The wood resistant to fungal infection and easily kiln dried so the planks do not crack or split. Numbers of furniture manufacturers in Indonesia provide mindi wood furniture in their collections, and the collections ready to be yours.