Nacre (two parts nomenclature: Khaya senegalensis) is a kind of plant in the Meliaceae . The plant in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, and Uganda.
Rustic tree is growing to 35-40 m, the diameter of the tree that reaches 2 m. Evergreen, bushy foliage, usually, curved shoots down. Even once-pinnate, inflorescences of small white flowers, beam has 4 small white wings stick to each other, the season of flowers, 4-5. The tiny capsules, nine in October, when the nine sprung into 4 pieces. Gray-Brown bark, shells cracking circled coins such as the skull so the tree is also called Monkey skull.
Characteristics:
-Large trees, high > 25 m and diameter > 1, 5 m. Stem smooth, smooth bark, old at non bubble at smooth scales. Broad foliage.
-Compound brake, even bird grows bringing 3-6 pair of leaflets. Leaflets oval, smooth convex nose close short, wedge-tailed, leaves usually have 6-12cm 3-5 cm. wide, margins, on smooth balls. Stalk long leaflets 01cm.
-The flowers grow in the leaf axils.
-Spherical capsules, from 4-5 cm in diameter, when ripe the shell turns wood and cracked thânh 4 pieces, each box contains > 10 seeds. Flattening nuts, flattening thin wings around.
-Horizontal root system, plants thrive.
Biology and ecology
Bright preferred seeds easy to grow, fast grows nẳy germinated very doing, regenerate the seeds and buds are strong. Very fast growing tree, can grow well on any terrain, any type of soil, very sandy soils suit of the coastal area of Central Vietnam, drought and wind storm very well. Especially the trees are likely resistant to pests.
The use of the
-Trees planted from North to South.
-Tree has heavy wood, beautiful close-grained, easy to close, often close the gadget
-Canopy trees have dense, often grown as shade trees.
-Also commonly used as wood chopping boards (cooking utensils in the kitchen) because of the thick fibers, low in humus.
How to create seed processing plants:
-Tree Seeds after being separated from the fruit, dried in the sun lightly about 4-5 sunny, then stowed in the DermIS to dry or put in jars.
-When unwinding out processed by boiling 2 hot water + 3 cold and soaked in 2 hours then picked out sour and washing down garden beds or nursery decor accessories drills, sow directly into the election. Pocket size elected 12x18cm, soil composition and election of the gut with the ratio 2:1.
-Tree planting bare root capable, can sow outside scatter flower beds when planting care and well being.
-Tree has height from 40-50 cm shall be planted, can also do so with height 0.7-1 m shall be planted with the tree nursery planted straight into the flower beds.
Planting and care:
-The pit was dug with the size depends on the height of the tree.
-After planting, green manure crops created by Cabinet pull humidity, avoid loss of water for the plant. -If the higher tree planting have to use rods (1 plant must use 3 rods) to avoid the wind toppled.
-Tree planting: planning the planting layout Should travel along the road, along the fences do trees cover the ball.
-Planting areas must have sufficient area to grow (and strong horizontal root system development tree). If the narrow area limited the growth of the plant roots are prone to shedding.
-Can plant forests, planted with alternating along the natural forest cover.
In Vietnam, the cause was introduced from Central Africa from the French, was causing widely grown as ornamental plants, trees shield the sidewalks, in parks, school … There are many grown stratospheric in the Vietnam’s largest municipality such as Hanoi, Hai Phong, Da Nang, Ban me Thuot, Ho Chi Minh City. Pale red core wood, dác brown red, solid wood spiral grain, easy chapped warping. Treated wood used boats, carpentry, household.