Tephrosia wood is the wood of Cephalotaxus, is a relatively rare economic trees, solid material, fine grain, color light and clear, feel comfortable, smell aromatic and pleasant, can be made into a variety of high-grade handicrafts for shipbuilding, construction, sleepers, furniture and crafts such as carving and other good material, Cephalotaxus made of go is the highest level of a kind of, but the growth rate is slow to raise hundreds of years of time.

Cephalotaxus wood is the wood of Cephalotaxus, Cephalotaxus wood is a kind of tree, up to 25 meters high, 55 centimeters in diameter at breast height, the color of the bark is gray, gray-brown, with irregular longitudinal fissures on it, the annual branches are green, and the second and third-year branches are yellowish-green or dark greenish-yellow.

Cephalotaxus characteristics

Cephalotaxus wood is the wood of Cephalotaxus, is a relatively rare economic trees, Cephalotaxus tall, erect and upright, lateral branches developed, and all year round is green, it has a strong resistance to soot and dust, and few pests and diseases, the economic value of the relatively high.

Cephalotaxus wood is solid, fine-grained, light and clear in color, comfortable to the touch, pleasant smell, can be made into a variety of high-grade handicrafts, but Cephalotaxus tree grows slowly, to become a pillar of the material at least need to breed a hundred years.

Cephalotaxus uses

Cephalotaxus bark can be extracted to make industrial quebracho extracts, and the trunk of the tree is a good material for shipbuilding, construction, sleepers, furniture and crafts and carvings, etc. Cephalotaxus made of Go is one of the highest grade, with subtle texture, but nowadays there is very little Cephalotaxus wood, and basically hemlock is used to make the chessboards.

The origin of Cephalotaxus

Cephalotaxus is mainly grown in Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangsu, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi and other provinces south of the Yangtze River in China, among which Fengqiao Cephalotaxus of Zhejiang, Taiping Cephalotaxus of Anhui and Yushan Cephalotaxus of Jiangxi are the most prestigious.

The Cephalotaxus wood is mainly used to make furniture, Buddha statues, etc., and its price is much higher than ordinary cypress, pine, etc., and the Cephalotaxus tree can be sold not only timber, but also fruits, saplings, etc., ordinary timber selling price, mostly saplings, the general price of about 10 yuan of money, the age of the plant for more than 5 years of seedlings, the price of about 50 yuan.