List with basic specific gravity values for tree species common to India.
basic specific gravity = green volume and oven-dry weight
Common Name | Binomial | Basic Specific Gravity | Region |
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Alexandrian Laurel, Malayalam, Namaeruak, Sans | Calophyllum wightianum | 0.57 | India |
Andaman Bullet-Wood | Manilkara littoralis | 0.9 | India |
Apple Blossom / Pink And White Shower Tree / Javanese Cassia | Cassia javanica | 0.64 | India |
Banyan Tree / Banyan / Indian Fig Tree / Bar / Bor / Barh | Ficus benghalensis | 0.59 | India |
Beach Mulberry / Great Morinda / Ach / Manjanatti / Nuna / Indian Mulberry | Morinda citrifolia | 0.72 | India |
Bedda Nut Tree / Belleric Myrobalan / Beach Almond / Bhaira / Bahera | Terminalia belirica | 0.76 | India |
Bengal Kino / Bastard Teak / Flame Of Forest / Palash / Dhak | Butea monosperma | 0.56 | India |
Bili Nandi / Bendeku | Lagerstroemia microcarpa | 0.5 | India |
Bilimbi / Chemmeenpuli / Irumbanpuli | Averrhoa bilimbi | 0.56 | India |
Bilitirupa / Nirnavaal / Karinjaval / Aattunjaval | Syzygium gardneri | 0.76 | India |
Bintangur | Calophyllum tomentosum | 0.53 | India |
Bishopwood / Tiger Tree / Bishopweed / Kein / Toog /Javawood | Bischofia javanica | 0.72 | India |
Black Dammar | Canarium strictum | 0.53 | India |
Black Kongu / Karakongu | Hopea utilis | 0.84 | India |
Black Varnish Tree | Holigarna arnottiana | 0.32718 | India |
Blinding Tree | Excoecaria agallocha | 0.38 | India |
Blue Pine / Himalayan White Pine / Bhutan Pine | Pinus wallichiana | 0.43 | India |
Buddha's Coconut Tree / Anathondi | Pterygota alata | 0.48 | India |
Burma Blackwood | Dalbergia cultrata | 0.77 | India |
Burmese Lacquer | Gluta usitata | 0.74 | India |
Butterfly Tree / Purple Orchid Tree / Camel Hoof Tree | Bauhinia purpurea | 0.72 | India |
Buttontree / Dhau / Dhoy / Dhaura | Anogeissus acuminata | 0.88 | India |
Camphor / Camphor Laurel / Karpur | Cinnamomum camphora | 0.62 | India |
Candle Nut Tree / Kukui | Aleurites moluccana | 0.6 | India |
Cannon Ball Tree | Xylocarpus granatum | 0.66297 | India |
Carattannili | Dipterocarpus bourdilloni | 0.58 | India |
Cedar, Pink / Korangatti | Acrocarpus fraxinifolius | 0.68 | India |
Ceylon Oak / Lac Tree / Ma / Macassar Oil Tree / Kusam | Schleichera oleosa | 1.08 | India |
Chaplash | Artocarpus chaplasha | 0.45 | India |
Chaulmoogra | Gynocardia odorata | 0.39606 | India |
Chebulic Myrombalam / Black Myrobalan / Harra / Harara | Terminalia chebula | 0.88 | India |
China-Shrub / Bisi | Ardisia solanacea | 0.62 | India |
Chinese Elm | Ulmus lanceaefolia | 0.70602 | India |
Chinese Soapberry / Soapnut / Ritha | Sapindus mukorossi | 0.7 | India |
Chinese Tallow / Candleberry-Tree / Pippalyang | Sapium sebiferum | 0.51 | India |
Chirauli Nut | Buchanania latifolia | 0.46 | India |
Common Sausage Tree / Jhar Fanoos / Balam Khira | Kigelia africana | 0.7 | India |
Crepe Myrtle / Crepe Flower / Sida / Bakli | Lagerstroemia parviflora | 0.62 | India |
Crepe Myrtle Tree / Pride-Of-India / Jarul | Lagerstroemia speciosa | 0.64 | India |
Curry Leaf / Bursunga / Meetha Neem / Katneem | Murraya koenigii | 0.68 | India |
Custard Apple, Sugar Apple / Sharifa / Sitaphal | Annona squamosa | 0.73 | India |
Dhaman | Grewia tiliaefolia | 0.65 | India |
Dhao, Dhankra, Ghavad | Anogeissus sericea | 0.74 | India |
Dhok / Dhonk / Dhonkda | Anogeissus pendula | 0.94 | India |
Dinnerplate Tree / Kanak Champa / Padma Pushp / Parivyadh | Pterospermum acerifolium | 0.72 | India |
Dita Bark Tree / Devil Tree / Saptaparni / Scholar | Alstonia scholaris | 0.44 | India |
Divi Divi | Caesalpinia coriaria | 1.18 | India |
East Indian Copal | Canarium bengalense | 0.56 | India |
Ebony Tree / Kachnar | Bauhinia variegata | 0.7 | India |
Egyptian Riverhemp / Common Sesban / Egyptian Rattlepod / Shevari / Jayanti / Raysinghani | Sesbania sesban | 0.43 | India |
Ekdania / Katti-Daman / Kasai / Kattian | Bridelia retusa | 0.5 | India |
False Ashok / Mast Tree / Dedbari / Ashok / Aranamaram / Cherunna | Polyalthia longifolia | 0.59 | India |
Fern Tree | Filicium decipiens | 0.96 | India |
Fir, West Himalayan / Pindrow / Ragha | Abies pindrow | 0.38 | India |
Five Finger / Aanappulinchakka / Thamaratha / Kamranga Tree | Averrhoa carambola | 0.6 | India |
Five Leaved Chaste Tree / Nirgundi | Vitex negundo | 0.67 | India |
Fragrant Bay Tree | Persea odoratissima | 0.57 | India |
Garuga / Kharpat | Garuga pinnata | 0.64 | India |
Guava / Guajava / Common Guava / Amrood | Psidium pomiferum | 0.67 | India |
Guest Tree / Bhola | Kleinhovia hospita | 0.44 | India |
Gum Arabic Tree / Babul / Thorn Mimosa / Egyptian Acacia | Acacia arabica | 0.86 | India |
Gummy Cape Jasmine / Dekamella-Gum Gardenia / Cumbi-Gum Tree / Kikemal | Gardenia gummifera | 0.61 | India |
Haldu / Kadami / Kadamba | Adina cordifolia | 0.59 | India |
Hattipaila | Pterocarpus acerifolius | 0.51 | India |
Himalayan Cedar / Deodar Cedar / Devdar | Cedrus deodara | 0.47 | India |
Himalayan Cypress / Bhutan Cypress | Cupressus torulosa | 0.44 | India |
Himalayan Elm / Kashmir Elm / Bhutan Elm | Ulmus wallichiana | 0.44 | India |
Himalayan Hemlock | Tsuga brunoniana | 0.38 | India |
Himalayan Mulberry | Morus serrata | 0.58 | India |
Hirsute Artocarpus / Wild Jack / Aini | Artocarpus hirsutus | 0.52 | India |
Hollong Tree | Dipterocarpus macrocarpus | 0.6 | India |
Hopea / Karimpongu / Kongu / Irumbakam / Naithambaga | Hopea glabra | 0.87 | India |
Hopea / White Kongu / Iron Wood Of Malabar | Hopea parviflora | 0.79 | India |
Hora / Kiripalu | Dipterocarpus zeylanicus | 0.689661 | India |
Indian Bael / Stone Apple / Holy Fruit Tree | Aegle marmelos | 0.88 | India |
Indian Black Wood / Anjan | Hardwickia binata | 0.73 | India |
Indian Cassia / Indian Bay Leaf / Indian Cassia Bark / Tamala Cassia | Cinnamomum tamala | 0.64 | India |
Indian Catmon / Elephant Apple / Girnar / Chalta / Karmabel | Dillenia indica | 0.7 | India |
Indian Cheryy / Fragrant Manjack | Cordia dichotoma | 0.36 | India |
Indian Cork Tree / Corckumaram / Kattumalli / Tree Jasmine / Maramalli | Millingtonia hortensis | 0.64 | India |
Indian Frankincense / Incense Tree / Indian Olibanum / Salai | Boswellia serrata | 0.5 | India |
Indian Horse Chestnut / Himalayan Horse Chestnut | Aesculus indica | 0.46494 | India |
Indian Laburnum / Purging Cassia | Cassia fistula | 0.96 | India |
Indian Laurel Fig / Thapsi / Phrapsi | Ficus retusa | 0.64 | India |
Indian Mahogany / Red Cedar /Sandal Neem / Toon Tree | Cedrela toona | 0.56 | India |
Indian Mango / Cuckoo's Joy, Mango, Mango Tree | Mangifera indica | 0.68 | India |
Indian Maple | Acer caesium | 0.49938 | India |
Indian Oak / Small Indian Oak / Attupezhu | Barringtonia acutangula | 0.62 | India |
Indian Red Wood / Rohan | Soymida febrifuga | 0.96 | India |
Indian Rubber Fig | Ficus elastica | 0.68 | India |
Indian Tree Spurge / Milk Bush / Pencil Bush | Euphorbia tirucalli | 0.54 | India |
Indian-Buttertree | Diploknema butyracea | 0.63 | India |
Indonesia Rosewood / Bombay Blackwood / Malabar Rosewood / Sitsal | Dalbergia latifolia | 0.8 | India |
Ironwood / Kassod | Cassia siamea | 0.86 | India |
Jambu | Xylia xylocarpa | 0.68 | India |
Japanese Medlar / Loquat / Japanese Plum / Lokat | Eriobotrya japonica | 0.88 | India |
Java Plum / Neredu / Naval / Jambol / Jaman / Jambu / Black Plum | Syzygium cumini | 0.76 | India |
Jonesia Asoka | Saraca indica | 0.8 | India |
Jujube Tree / Indian Jujube / Chinese Date / Common Jujub / Ber | Ziziphus jujuba | 0.92 | India |
Jungle Cork Tree / Indian Elm / Kanju / Papri / Papdi | Holoptelea integrifolia | 0.5 | India |
Kandi / Jat / Jhand | Prosopis spicigera | 0.63 | India |
Kaori | Grewia multiflora | 0.57 | India |
Katber | Ziziphus xylopyrus | 0.66297 | India |
Katu Yette | Lepisanthes tetraphylla | 0.96 | India |
Khaiger /kanta / Chira / Kaigu / Banni / Ansandra | Acacia ferruginea | 0.88 | India |
Kiinankadami | Breonia chinensis | 0.42 | India |
Kirballi / Vayanavu / Pudangalli | Poeciloneuron indicum | 0.9 | India |
Kulamavu / Uravu / Kulirmavu, | Persea macrantha | 0.44 | India |
Lilac Tree / Persian Lilac / Chinaberry / Bead Tree / Umbrella Tree / Pride Of India / White Cedar | Melia azedarach | 0.56 | India |
Litchi / Litchi Nut | Litchi chinensis | 0.96 | India |
Longleaf Pine / Chir | Pinus longifolia | 0.48 | India |
Longwood | Haematoxylum campechianum | 1.04 | India |
Looking Glass Tree / Sundari | Heritiera littoralis | 1.04 | India |
Madras Thorn / Jangal Jalebi | Pithecellobium dulce | 0.64 | India |
Magizham / Bakula / Pagade Tree's / Maulsari / Bulletwood / Indian Medlar | Mimusops elengi | 0.8 | India |
Malay Apple / Malaysian Apple / Pomerac | Syzygium malaccense | 0.6 | India |
Malkakni / Dhebri / Jamrasi / Kondagaid | Elaeodendron glaucum | 0.72 | India |
Mangrove Apple / Sonneratia Mangrove / Marai Maa | Sonneratia apetala | 0.52 | India |
Mangrove Trumpet-Tree | Dolichandrone spathacea | 0.56 | India |
Maple, Campbell's | Acer campbellii | 0.49938 | India |
Maple, Franchet's | Acer sterculiaceum | 0.35301 | India |
Maple, Himalayan / Evergreen Maple / Kashmir | Acer oblongum | 0.6027 | India |
Maple, Painted | Acer pictum | 0.62853 | India |
Marodphali | Heterophragma adenophyllum | 0.76 | India |
Moa Tree / Gilaunda / Mahua / Vanprasth | Madhuca latifolia | 0.99 | India |
Monkeyfruit / Lakoocha / Badahara, | Artocarpus lakoocha | 0.64 | India |
Narela | Polyalthia cerasoides | 0.83 | India |
New Guinea Rosewood | Dipterocarpus indicus | 0.62 | India |
Officinal Drypetes / Jivapota | Putranjiva roxburghii | 0.57 | India |
Oil Cake Tree / Bitter Albizia Wheel Tree / Lallei / Krishna Siris | Albizia amara | 0.72324 | India |
Pala Indigo / Dyers's Oleander / Dudhi | Wrightia tinctoria | 0.8 | India |
Palai | Palaquium ellipticum | 0.53 | India |
Persian Walnut / English Walnut / Common Walnut | Juglans regia | 0.47 | India |
Persimmon Ebony / Coromandel Ebony / Malabar Ebony | Diospyros melanoxylon | 0.68 | India |
Phalsa / Dhamin | Grewia asiatica | 0.58548 | India |
Pindar/ Pindalu | Trewia nudiflora | 0.44 | India |
Pinervetty / Kattumarotti / Attuchangilai / Kastel | Hydnocarpus alpina | 0.6888 | India |
Pinwheelflower / Crepe Jasmine | Tabernaemontana divaricata | 0.75 | India |
Pipli Tree | Exbucklandia populnea | 0.55 | India |
Plachh / Yuan Mao Yang / Hindi Ban Pipal / Chalaun / Safeda | Populus ciliata | 0.37 | India |
Poison Nut / Snake Wood/ Nux-Vomica / Strychnine Tree / Nux-Vomica Tree / Kuchila | Strychnos nux-vomica | 0.86 | India |
Polavu | Stereospermum xylocarpum | 0.59 | India |
Potka Siris | Albizia lucida | 0.88 | India |
Powder-Puff Tree / Fish-Poison Wood / Fish-Killer Tree | Barringtonia racemosa | 0.43 | India |
Pride Of Burma | Amherstia nobilis | 0.8 | India |
Puna / Kodo Tree | Ehretia serrata | 0.64 | India |
Quarrelsome Tree | Diospyros cordifolia | 0.73 | India |
Red Beadtree / Red Lucky Seed / Red Sandelwood /Condori Wood | Adenanthera pavonina | 0.88 | India |
Red Cassia / Ceylon Senna / Roxburgh's Cassia | Cassia marginata | 1.28 | India |
Red Cutch Red Ebony | Acacia chundra | 0.98 | India |
Red Sandalwood / Ruby Wood / Red Sanders | Pterocarpus santalinus | 0.97 | India |
Reetha | Sapindus laurifolius | 1.02 | India |
Rohituka Tree / Harinkhana | Aphanamixis polystachya | 0.64 | India |
Rose Mallow | Hibiscus populneus | 0.8 | India |
Roxburgh's Kydia / Pula | Kydia calycina | 0.2583 | India |
Sage-Leaved Alangium / Akola / Ankol | Alangium salviifolium | 0.8 | India |
Sal Tree / Salwa / Sakher / Salwa / Sakh | Shorea robusta | 0.73 | India |
Sang Drago / Amboyna Wood / Narra / Sena | Pterocarpus indicus | 0.96 | India |
Senegal Gum | Acacia modesta | 0.83517 | India |
Shitanshu / Vishaha | Melaleuca leucadendron | 0.78 | India |
Silk Oak / Silver Oak / Khajur | Grevillea robusta | 0.64 | India |
Siris Tree / Lebbeck / East India Walnut / Womans Tongue | Albizia lebbeck | 0.8 | India |
Sirpoon Tree / Poonspar Tree | Calophyllum polyanthum | 0.43911 | India |
Sisso / Indian Rosewood | Dalbergia sissoo | 0.76 | India |
South Indian Mahua | Madhuca longifolia | 0.74 | India |
Spurge / Indian Spurge Tree / Oleander Spurge / Patton Ki Send | Euphorbia neriifolia | 0.41 | India |
Sugandhakokila | Cinnamomum cecidodaphne | 0.44772 | India |
Sweet Orange | Citrus sinensis | 0.78 | India |
Syringe Tree / African Tulip Tree / Rugtoora | Spathodea campanulata | 0.64 | India |
Tall Albizia / White Siris / Safed Siris | Albizia procera | 0.64 | India |
Tamarind / Sampalok / Indian Date / Imli | Tamarindus indica | 1.28 | India |
Teak / Saag / Sagwan / Indian-Oak | Tectona grandis | 0.72 | India |
Tellicherry Bark / Ivory Tree / Bitter Oleander / Ester Tree / Conessi Bark / Indrajao / Kutaja / Karva Indrajau | Holarrhena pubescens | 0.64 | India |
Thavidi / Kanakaitha | Miliusa tomentosa | 0.62 | India |
Thingam | Hopea wightiana | 0.91266 | India |
Thitmin / Nageia | Nageia wallichiana | 0.46 | India |
Tinnelvelli Red Wood / Red-Wood Tree | Gluta travancorica | 0.62 | India |
Tiriconamalai Maram | Berrya cordifolia | 0.99 | India |
Toothbrush Tree / Siamese Rough Bush / Sewra / Dahia / Sihora | Streblus asper | 0.72 | India |
Toothed Leaf Chilla / Vapunnakannan | Casearia tomentosa | 0.64 | India |
Torch Tree / Torch Wood Tree / Small Flowered Ixora / Jilpai / Kota Gandhal | Ixora pavetta | 0.96 | India |
Torch Wood / Buttercup Tree / Golden Silk Cotton / Galgal | Cochlospermum gossypium | 0.27 | India |
Tree Of Damocles / Indian Trumpet Flower. | Oroxylum indicum | 0.48 | India |
Tree Of Heaven / Maharukh | Ailanthus excelsa | 0.4 | India |
Tree Of Sadness / Coral Jasmine / Night-Flowering Jasmine / Pavazha Malli | Nyctanthes arbor-tristis | 0.88 | India |
Trincomalee Wood / Halmilla Tree | Berrya cordifolia | 0.77 | India |
Tropical Almond / India Almond | Terminalia catappa | 0.51 | India |
Trumpet Flower / Patiri | Stereospermum personatum | 0.6 | India |
Undapayin / Undaipanu | Gymnacranthera farquhariana | 0.43911 | India |
Ungu / Karanj / Panigrahi / Honge Tree / Indian Beech Tree / Vesi Ne Wai / Pongam Oil Tree | Pongamia pinnata | 0.64 | India |
Vegetable Hummingbird / Swamp Pea / Scarlet Wistaria-Tree / Spanish Armada / Basna / Agasti | Sesbania grandiflora | 0.51 | India |
Vellacheeralam, Karaki | Aglaia hiernii | 0.5 | India |
Venkkotta / Venkadavam / Vembala | Lophopetalum wightianum | 0.37 | India |
Villooni / Karai / Kanakaitha / Kar | Miliusa velutina | 0.63 | India |
Waras | Heterophragma quadriloculare | 0.52 | India |
West Himalayan Alder | Alnus nitida | 0.37023 | India |
West Himalayan Spruce / Morinda Spruce | Picea smithiana | 0.4 | India |
Whistling Pine / She Oak / Junglisaru | Casuarina equisetifolia | 0.96 | India |
White Cedar / Vella Akil | Dysoxylum malabaricum | 0.58 | India |
White Champak | Michelia nilagirica | 0.55104 | India |
White Dammar / Indian Copal Tree / Piney Varnish Tree | Vateria indica | 0.48 | India |
White Kashmir Teak / Coomb Teak / Kambari / Candahar Tree / White Teak / Gamari / Ghumhar | Gmelina arborea | 0.56 | India |
White Thorn | Acacia suma | 1.21 | India |
White Wood Chaste Tree | Vitex leucoxylon | 0.52521 | India |
Wild Guava / Patana Oak / Kumbi / Slow Match Tree | Careya arborea | 0.8 | India |
Wild Mangosteen / Malabar Ebony / Gaub Tree / Riber Ebony | Diospyros peregrina | 0.72 | India |
Wild Nutmeg / Kaatu Jathikai / Ran-Jayphal | Knema attenuata | 0.43 | India |
Winged Myrobalan / Arjuna / Arjun | Terminalia arjuna | 0.94 | India |