Author: Chow, Poo

Source: Forest Science, Volume 17, Number 2, 1 June 1971 , pp. 186-189(4)

Publisher: Society of American Foresters

Abstract:

A sweetgum tree leaning at an angle of 20 degrees had notably eccentric growth. Fiber length was not reduced by the presence of tension wood on the upper side. On both maximum and minimum radii and at all heights, fiber length increased rapidly for a distance of 10 cm or more from the pith, reached a maximum, and then decreased slowly. A general hyperbolic equation based on linear and quadratic effects of distance from the pith accounted for some 98 percent of the total variation in fiber length. Forest Sci. 17:186-189.

Keywords: Wood properties; Liquidambar styraciflua

Document Type: Journal article

Affiliations: 1: Assist. Professor of Wood Science, Dep. of Forestry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 61801

Publication date: 1971-06-01

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