Green Forest

Maple

Family of the maple. The German name - Ahorn, English - Maple, Italian - Acero. Are Most extended: a maple Manchurian , or platanoides, (A. platanoides) - Norway maple; a maple field (A. campestre) - Field maple; a maple false, or Javor, (A. pseudoplatanus) - Sycamore maple; a maple Manchurian (A. mandshuricum) - Manchurian maple.

Grows in zones with a temperate climate across all Europe, in America, in a midland of the European part of Russia, on caucasus and the Far East and in other regions. A maple breed without a kernel. Wood at Ahorn shining, white, and at other kinds of a maple - with a reddish or brownish shade.

Year layers are appreciable on all cuts. The central beams are especially well visible on a radial cut, create characteristic silveriness. The maple has firm, dense wood with a beautiful structure; durability of wood a little more than at oak wood.

Eventually the maple turns yellow a little. Maple wood - a refined material for internal furnish of the premises, a creating contrast background for dark furniture. The most valuable kind of a maple - a sugar maple, the most important maple of the North America, is extended around Great Lakes. He also can be met in East Canada. It grows in our country in the south, in particular on caucasus.

As a rule, the tree grows in the mixed forest with other kinds of deciduous trees. The sugar maple can reach heights to 40 metres, and in diameter to 120 the tree trunk which has Grown in wood without knots see up to a crone. A magnificent maple one of the best materials for violins. Wood is well processed by the cutting tool, is unstable against dampness though it is jarred on it is not enough.

Thanks to special substances, it accepts the necessary colouring and tone in salts of metals. The maple is perfectly cut and polished, therefore is used for carved works with small tapering.

The maple is inclined to formation of cracks, therefore he demands very careful observance of a mode of drying. It is applied in furniture manufacture, to manufacturing of details of cars, cases of musical instruments etc. The interesting interline interval with an unusual structure from wood of a trunk and branches is especially appreciated.