the Botanical name - Prunus domestica
The English name - Plum tree
Tree from family rozocvetnyh (Rosiflorae) in height to 12 m, with not prickly or slabokolyuchimi runaways. A trunk bark cracked, serovato-whitish. The native land - a moderate zone of northern hemisphere (caucasus, Asia Minor, the Mediterranean, East China and Japan). As the wild-growing plant does not meet. Are known over 200 thousand grades of plum. Plum has got to the Central Europe from Asia Minor. In Germany it is grown up in the woods closed for visitings to the south from Danube. The trees having more than two-metre length and suitable for manufacture of business wood, meet very seldom, therefore wood of plum has no big commercial value.
Core red, violet-brown, sometimes with dark lines which give to wood decorative effect.
Wood dense, firm also is difficult in processing. Because of rigid fibres the risk of splitting is very great. Wood should be dried up very slowly and carefully to counteract the rigid tendency to checking and korobleniyu. Because of beautiful colour and a structure, it is possible to recommend a matte covering or the polished surfaces for finishing works. Plum wood is used for woodcarving. Also it is applied in architectural derevoobrabotke and because of the big rarity raises the price of products.
Volume weight in an air-dry condition: about 800 kg/cubic metres