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Makha
Botanical Name: Afzelia xylocarpa
Maka is the second economic hardwood after teak wood. Maka wood is a rarely found. It best properties include sturdiness and durability with gorgeous pattern, light yellow and pinkish yellow in texture. Most Maka woods have currently been used live between 100-300 years. As it's a big tree with specific gravity at 0.85-0.99, it's relatively weighted, it is commonly used to produce the household furnishing, interior and exterior decoration such as wood flooring, stair, ceiling, cornice, door and window frame, pole, and processed woods, etc. Sources of Maka wood are Thailand, Lao, Myanmar, and Cambodia, and so forth.
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