What kind of furniture is Chinese catalpa suitable for?
The morphological characteristics of catalpa bungeana are called Juglans bungeana. The brown eye arrangement of catalpa bungeana is dull and dull, but its shrinkage is small, so it can be used as a door core desktop core. Often used with Korean wood and walnut wood. Catalpa bungeana is a deciduous tree of Euphorbiaceae, belonging to Osmundaceae and Catalpa. The stem is three feet high, when it is round or wide-shaped, with a sharp tip and leaves with three or five tips. The tender leaves and petioles are all red, and the summer branches have slightly spikes of yellow-green flowers. Flowers unisexual, monoecious. Fruiting after flowering. What a soft thorn. Ripe is three-pronged, and the wood is meticulous. Mainly produced in northeast China. Often used to make furniture. Catalpa bungeana is also known as wood, wood, chair wood, catalpa wood, etc. Ci Hai: ",or', catalpa bungeana". "erya? Shi Mu: "Huai Xiaoye said". Note: "Sophora japonica is a Chinese catalpa. The thin leaves are ". Shuowen: "You are the same. 吆, 吆, and the same thing has different names. " In the late Ming Dynasty, Xie Zaihang's Five Miscellanies? The Ministry of Materials said: "Zi Ye, Ye, Chair Ye, Ying Ye, Yu Zhang Ye, a single tree and several people are also". Geographical distribution Catalpa wood is a kind of high-quality and precious wood facing extinction in Jiangbei, which grows in Shandong Peninsula and southwest Shandong Province, with a slow growth period and is particularly rare. Generally, mature trees are 6 to 8 years old. Wood is characterized by clear texture, fine and uniform structure, strong decay resistance, no deformation, no cracking and no peculiar smell. Usage According to the historical records of Ming and Qing Dynasties, catalpa bungeana was the first choice for making utensils at that time, and it was the material that the world appreciated. Ming-style furniture made of its wood not only has the characteristics of practicality, appreciation, preservation and appreciation of all mahogany furniture, but also has the quality that mahogany can't achieve because of acclimatization, cracking, deformation and cracking. In addition, mahogany furniture is mixed in fish and eyes in today's market, and it is difficult to distinguish authenticity. Antique furniture made of catalpa bungeana has been favored by many successful people because of its solid durability, natural environmental protection and other characteristics. Other uses of Catalpa bungeana are also recorded in ancient books. Medicinal, "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Catalpa bungeana leaves are pounded and swollen, and soup is used to wash pus and blood. Use dry leaves in winter. " It is also said that "the soup boiled from the root and bark of Catalpa bungeana can cure alopecia, fistula and all toxic swelling by external application"; Edible, recorded in Baoshan's Wild Vegetables Record in the Ming Dynasty: "Eating method, picking flowers and frying them, adjusting food with oil and salt. Or dried, fried or fried "; Used as feed, Su Shi's "Gezhi Rough Talk" in the Song Dynasty described: "The two trees of Tongzi, with flowers and leaves, are fattened immediately and easy to raise." From these ancient records, we can see how important Catalpa bungeana played in the life and production of working people in ancient China.