Purple heart tree1/21/2024 ![]() The plants selected are the plants in our book 'Plants For Your Food Forest: 500 Plants for Temperate Food Forests and Permaculture Gardens, as well as plants chosen for our forthcoming related books for Tropical/Hot Wet Climates and Mediterranean/Hot Dry Climates. ![]() ![]() Filter to search native plants to your area. Search over 900 plants ideal for food forests and permaculture gardens. If available other names are mentioned hereĪmarante, Amaranth, Amaratante, Barabu, Bois pourpre, Bois voilet, Daba, Dastan, Ellongrypho, Guaraburajado, Guarab, Koroboreli, Koroborezi, Kuruburelli, Lastan, Malako, Maraka, Mor ado, Morado, Nazareno, Palo morado, Pau roxo, Pau violeta, Pelo morado, Purperhart, Purpleheart, Saka, Sakavalli, Sapater, Tananeo, Violet, Violet wood, Violetwood, Zapatero Native Plant Search Our new book to be released soon is Edible Shrubs. ![]() Book titles include Edible Plants, Edible Perennials, Edible Trees, and Woodland Gardening. Plants For A Future have a number of books available in paperback and digital form. References More on Other Uses Cultivation details Though expensive, its high strength, hardness, and resistance to decay qualify it for structural purposes, house framing, bridging, fresh water piling, and for many other parts of house construction from millwork to flooring and siding. Because the wood has dimensional stability, it is used in the tropics for window frames and sliding shades. Purpleheart is considered Brazil? s best timber for spokes in cart wheels. The good mechanical characteristics of the wood fits it for such specialized uses as gymnasium apparatus, diving boards, skis, mill rollers, shafts, and tool handles. Because of its unique shades and peculiar variegated or mottle colour effect, it is particularly well adapted for use in turnery, marquetry, cabinets, ornamental furniture, counters, office desks, counter tops, carving, inlaying, billiard cue butts, swagger sticks, panelling, decorative handles, veneer parquet flooring, handles, billiard tables, and other similar uses. A relatively expensive, high-quality wood, it should, in general, be put into one of two uses: (1) Those requiring wood of great strength, particularly the ability to withstand strain and sudden shocks and (2) those requiring wood of unusual beauty or colouring. The wood splits when nailed and requires preboring it can be veneered with a hot glue. A lacquer finish is reported to hold this purple colouring. It is easily fastened by gluing and takes stain and either wax or French polish well, but its purple colour is dissipated by spirit polishes. The wood turns smoothly and requires but little sanding to bring out a good finish. Straight-grained material saws and planes well if sharp tools are used, but some care is required on irregular-grained material to prevent pick-up, especially on the radial surface. It also exudes a gummy resin when heated by dull tools this resin clings to cutter teeth and other tool parts and complicates the machining operations. The wood is moderately difficult to work with either hand or machine tools, for the wood resists cutting and dulls cutting edges. It seasons somewhat slowly, with only a slight risk of checking and distortion once dry it is moderately stable in service. Unfortunately, the oxidation process will again prevail, turning the wood first to purple and later to a walnut brown and finally to a black-brown colour with age. However, the exterior brown colour is only at the surface and by removing a thin layer the original colouring can be restored. In due time, the purplish colour is lost and the wood turns a permanent attractive dark brown. The wood is very hard, extremely heavy, strong, tough, and very durable in the soil, but it is most often recognized for its unusual colouring, which at times is actually purple. The uniform texture varies from fine to medium the grain is usually straight and seldom interlocked, but is sufficiently irregular, along with variation in lustre and colour, to give the wood a pleasing stripe figure on the quarter-cut surface lustre is medium, somewhat greasy in appearance, and cold to the touch no distinctive odour or taste is present in seasoned wood. The heartwood is a greyish purple when freshly cut, later becoming a violet purple to deep purple through an oxidation process and then slowly darkening to an attractive deep brown it is clearly demarcated from the 5 - 10cm thick layer of creamy white to light pinkish cinnamon streaked with light brown sapwood. The bark of mature trees is used by local people for making canoes. It is used in medicine, as a substitute for turpentine, and to produce a red dye for dying textile fabrics. Other Uses An aromatic resin is extracted from the wood.
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