Hardwood Flooring Species: The Pilang Wood

Useful Information about The Pilang Tree

The Pilang Tree can easily identified by its white bark and large wide spreading limbs. That’s why the Pilang’s english name is White-Bark Acacia. The pilang is a native tree to the southeastern areas of Asia. In those places, the pilang tree is being used mostly as shade for livestock and as a source of dry-season fodder. The Pilang is a large, very thorny tree, which can reach to the maximum height of 115’ feet and with a trunk up to 3.3’ feet wide. The Pilang tree has also a very long life span of 100 years and even more.

Pilang Botanical Name: Acacia leucophloea

Pilang Wood Origin Country: Southeast Asia. Mostly India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand.

Other Pilang Species and Names: Pilang (Indonesian name), White-Bark Acacia (English), Safed Kikkar (Hindi), Safed Babul (Bengali), Goira (Oriya), Sarai, Velvelam (Tamil).

Pilang Hardwood Look and Color:  The Pilang Tree contains a big variety of colors and color variation. Generally, the bark is white to yellowish gray, smooth and exfoliates in long strips. The heartwood of the pilang tree has a strong brown-reddish color and is considered very beautiful hardwood. The pilang sapwood has a white-yellowish color, a lot brighter than the pilang heartwood, what gives the pilang hardwood a great variation in colors.

Pilang Hardwood Grain Texture: The pilang Hardwood has and irregular interlocked grain, with a very rough texture. The Pilang is a very hard wood to work with.

Pilang Wood Hardness and Strength: The Pilang wood is a very strong as a hardwood. The pilang is also very hard and heavy wood, a lot more than the benchmark in hardwood flooring hardness tests, the red oak hardwood. On the Janka Hardness Test, the pilang gets the score of 2400.

Pilang Wood Uses on The Wood Industry: Thanks to its magnificent colors, its great strength and hardness, the pilang hardwood mostly being used for decorative furniture. Although it is not the most known hardwood there is, today we can find the Pilang in a lot of places in the wood industry. There are Pilang poles, Pilang farming implements, Pilang carts, Pilang wheels, Pilang turnery, construction timbers and of course the most beautiful Pilang Hardwood Floors.

To see examples of Pilang Hardwood Flooring & To get FREE Pilang Wood Samples please choose one of the following links:

WoodCrafters Solid Hand-Scraped Pilang Hardwood Floors with Natural Stain

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