The featured species this month is Yellow Birch, Betula alleghensis. Its the most common Birch species and used for a wide variety of applications from plywood, to furniture and pulp products.
I recently read in a book that soft woods are generally stable because their structure is simple and homogeneous. Versus hardwoods from temperate climates which have a more complex and heterogeneous structure, which brings more tension into the wood and that makes it more likely to warp. Characteristics are varying among species.
I recently read in a book that soft woods are generally stable because their structure is simple and homogeneous. Versus hardwoods from temperate climates which have a more complex and heterogeneous structure, which brings more tension into the wood and that makes it more likely to warp. Characteristics are varying among species.