Most mahogany grows very slowly, resulting in a very long growth cycle, and many mahogany need to grow for hundreds or even thousands of years before it can become a useful material.
As a hot red sour branch in the current mahogany market, people believe that the material that can be used to carve wood carving crafts should be more than 300 years old, and the best one should be more than 500 years old to have use value.
Why can it be used for more than 300 years?
As we all know, not all of a tree can be used for crafts or furniture, most of them are made from the heartwood part of the tree.
The heartwood part of mahogany wood such as the big red sour branch is relatively slow, and the heartwood in the short age of the big red sour branch wood is small and the material is poor.
About 100-year-old big red sour branches:
The trunk is about 18-22 cm in diameter, and the heartwood part is less than 2 cm in diameter, so it is of little use.
About 200-year-old large red sour branches:
The diameter of the trunk is about 25-35 cm, and the diameter of the heartwood part is about 12 cm.
250-300 years old sorrel:
The diameter of the trunk is about 35 cm or more, and the ratio of heartwood to sapwood is about 6:4, which means that the usable heartwood is about 18 cm, which can be used to make some small carvings.
More than 350 years old big red sour branches:
In the past, the heartwood part grew together with the sapwood part, but in the future, the heartwood part will grow every year, and the sapwood will become thinner and thinner.
Craftsmen have a skill, which is naturally successful and worthy of inheritance
Through the above comparison, we can find that the sapwood part of the wood is relatively large in the large red sour branch under 200 years, and the usable heartwood part has no use value.
The big red sour branches that are more than 300 years old can really be used as a carving material, but the big red sour branches that are about 300 years old can't be used as large pieces.
Millennium Ichiki
According to speculation, the diameter of the big red sour branch grows by 5-8 cm every 100 years on average, which means that the big red sour branch with a diameter of more than 50 cm will grow for at least 800 to 1000 years.
It is not an exaggeration to say that mahogany such as the big red sour branch is a thousand years of waiting for a tree, and it is precisely because of this that these mahogany trees have such strong superiority.
One tree has been passed down for thousands of years
For a long time in the past, the big red sour branch has been under the Hainan yellow pear and the small leaf red sandalwood, which is less known.
With the shortage of resources of Hainan Huanghuali and Pterocarpus microphylla, the characteristics of the big red sour branch have gradually become well-known, and its advantages have gradually emerged, and the price has increased significantly.
Now the big red sour branch has become the main force in the mahogany market, and is the main raw material used to carve wood carving handicrafts.
The wood of the big red sour branch is excellent, and the color is generous and festive, which is very in line with the aesthetic vision of the Chinese, and is a kind of wood that can be passed down for thousands of years.
The scarcity of the big red sour branch
Through the above description of the big red sour branch, we have learned that the growth cycle of the big red sour branch is very long, and it is a short-term non-renewable resource.
With the increasing love of people for the big red sour branches, the big red sour branches have been cut down on a large scale, resulting in the scarcity of the big red sour branches.
At present, there are no mature native trees in the forests of Laos, and under the protection of the government, some of them have barely been preserved.
However, the big red sour branches on the market have been in short supply, and there has been a rush to buy them from the source to the handicraft terminal, which is also where the price of the big red sour branches has risen, and the scarcity is expensive.
Why is there a rush to buy big red sour branches?
It is also because of the superiority of the material itself, as well as the profound history and culture.
At present, the big red sour branch is already very scarce, and it will be even more scarce in the future, and the price will be higher, so if you want to collect it, don't take a good chance.