the Botanical name - Sequoia sempervirens
The English name - Sequoia, Big-tree
Sort of evergreen coniferous trees of family taksodievyh. A unique kind - a sequoia evergreen (Sequoia sempervirens). Together with sekvoiyadendronom concerns the highest trees (reach heights over 100 m and diameter 8,5). The sequoia Founders Tree as believe, is the highest tree in the world, 360 foots in height, with diameter of 46 foots. Grows in mountains of California and Southern Oregon; forms poroslevye woods. In Europe and Asia the sequoia is found in a fossil condition. Trees can live, till 4000 years.
Colour of a core changes from light-red to brownish-red, is frequent in violet tones and darkens in due course.
Sequoia - one of the best commercial wood in the world because it is free from knots. Wood differs ease, softness, fragility and bol'shoyu durability at preservation in the earth. It is easily processed manually and machine tools. To dry it is necessary cautiously because of high vlagosoderjaniya. The wood used for the external purposes should be protected from weather influence, but badly maintains bad weather influence, is well polished, breaks easily up and processed by cutting tools and used on cable columns, cross ties, an interline interval just for decoration, water pipes, boards, gont, etc., and the insignificant maintenance of pitch does it prigodnoyu on klepki for wine casks. Red colour of wood has given cause for the name of sequoias mahogany, and its plantings by red wood (redwood). This wood is more popular in the USA and in the Far East, than in Europe. Komlevaya a part of a trunk of a sequoia the root vavony »is more known under the name«.
Volume weight in an air-dry condition: about 290 kg/cubic metres