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Modern furniture brands use the promotion of good quality wood as a selling point, which is also because modern people have higher and higher requirements for home quality.
However, in the past years, people's understanding of wood is not very deep, and people who move from the countryside to the city are also looking for a living, and they cannot take those rare tree species directly for granted, but feel that these tree species are not usable at all.
With the development of the city, especially the rise of the entertainment economy, people's demand for luxury wood such as black pear and yellow pear is increasing, and there is no good substitute for these two kinds of wood, which has a very market gap.
But what everyone ignores is that in fact, the wood performance of the thorn tree is not worse than these two, and people's attention to the tree has also started recently, why are people so interested in the wood of the thorn tree?
And what makes the wood of the thorn tree so expensive?
Thorn tree.
The Thorn tree is abundant in southern China, and the peak is in Jiangxi and Hunan, and the construction of cities has rapidly promoted the development of many rural villages, and gradually the farmland has been replaced by urban houses, which has led to the growth area of the Thorn tree becoming less and less, especially after the further standardization of national policies, the number of Thorn trees has not been developed so quickly.
And when these previous large-scale development of Thorn Tree were developed, the name of the tree species may not be accurate, and the name of the Thorn Tree tree sounds like that, and there are no other names that sound good.
I have mentioned the article about trees before, and you may be familiar with the content mentioned, such as metasequoia is the best material for making paper, I believe you are not familiar with it.
Compared with the beautiful leaves and high canopy of metasequoia, the barbs and leaves on the hook thorn on the thorn tree are very unpleasant, so many people are not familiar with this aspect at first, and even without accurate judgment, they will think that the thorn tree is useless.
But in fact, there are hooks and thorns are also the key points for the survival of the thorn tree, like the thorn tree, which grows in most areas are very barren on the barren mountains and bald mountains, the soil is certainly not very nutritious, at this time, if the tree species does not have a certain ability to resist insect pests, it is easy to be gnawed by those insects.
Therefore, it is a good way to have thorns on the tree, because because there are thorns on the tree, many insects will not climb up to eat the leaves, which allows the leaves to photosynthesize normally.
Then photosynthesis means that trees can reproduce fruits, and because the growth environment of the thorn tree is barren mountains and bald mountains, how can this barren soil feed the kind of tree that everyone has seen, so the thorn tree is also relatively short.
The branches are the most in need of light, but the branches are more difficult to contact with the sun when they grow in relatively high places, so the canopy of the thorn tree is relatively sparse, which is also normal.
The drought-tolerant nature of the tree also allows it to grow in this environment, even more arid and barren environments.
The growth rate of the thorn tree is very slow, compared to the common poplar, etc., the growth rate of the thorn tree can be said to be turtle speed, if it grows in a rich environment, it is fine, but the growth rate of the thorn tree growing on the barren mountains and bald mountains will become slower.
In the forest area, the thorn tree can grow to a height of more than ten meters or even twenty meters, but it takes hundreds of years for the thorn tree to grow at this height, so it is already very remarkable to be able to grow to a height of more than ten meters in the forest area.
So it is precisely because the thorn tree grows slowly, its wood quality will also be relatively good, slowly growing, slowly absorbing nutrients, and forming wood little by little.
In the process of the development of the thorn tree, there will definitely be traces of growth links on the trunk, which directly determines the quality of the tree, while the thorn tree grows slowly and is short, so there will be fewer links on the trunk.
This is the reason why the wood of the thorn tree has good performance, but compared with mahogany and huanghuali wood, which are more expensive than it, the advantages of the thorn tree are not very obvious.
The bark of the tree is usually grayish-black, similar to a pine tree, and the wood layer under the bark is very bright yellow, so the trunk of the tree is more beautiful when it grows up, so it is more suitable for making furniture and flooring and other objects.
Uses of the Thorn Tree.
The use of the thorn tree can not only hammer its wood into furniture, flooring, etc., but also has a high value in terms of economic value, which has to mention the fruit core of the thorn tree.
The kernel of the fruit is very hard, but part of its kernel is the kernel, which can be taken out, although it is small, but the oil content of this kernel is very high.
Moreover, the composition of this oil is completely comparable to walnuts and other high-fat kernels, and the oil of the kernels is rich in oleic acid, which is very useful in the field of health, and it also shows the economic value of the species and nucleus of the spiny tree.
But what you may not know is that the spiny tree is also a nitrogen-fixing plant, and its root system is very developed.
With such a developed root system, its role in preventing soil erosion is also revealed, and what is even more gratifying is that the thorn tree happens to grow in areas such as the Loess Plateau, which is just the problem of soil erosion.
Therefore, in the past, when people cut down a large number of thorn trees, in a few decades, the wind and sand in the Loess Plateau and other places became serious, so it will be said that the role of thorn trees is really great.
Although there are not many of them, there are still some high-quality thorn trees in central China, and it can be said that the wood performance of this thorn tree is better than that of the thorn trees grown in Deyang, and even some wood and large pears are really not faulty.
The wood of the Thorn Tree can be regarded as a very high-end furniture material, so the Thorn Tree is most suitable for making cultural games, which is also related to the color of the Thorn Tree itself.
The bracelets in the cultural play are very rare, so the price is also the highest, these bracelets look very good, the color of the thorn tree is golden, and the appearance is more golden than the old bracelets.
In addition, it has a very unique horizontal pattern, compared with other wood made of bracelets, more beautiful, so it has a unique market, and the price is also very high.
In addition, the yellow pigment alkaloids in the body of the thorn tree are not available in other woods, and people have found that the thorn tree can extract this substance as early as the Song Dynasty, so it is unknown how people knew about it in ancient times.
Although these things are now regarded as rare collections, they were used for decoration at that time and have high historical and cultural value.
The use of the thorn tree.
Therefore, there are many kinds of people's cognition of the thorn tree, either it is used to control wind and sand, or it is used to extract yellow pigment, which is mainly used for fabric dyeing and decoration, and the wood of the thorn tree is even more unlikely to be discovered by people at that time.
But at present, people's understanding of tree species is also more profound, so it is no wonder that people have expectations for the thorn tree, and the thorn tree is investigated when the new afforestation is planted, and the credit in this regard cannot be ignored.
In terms of environmental protection, the thorn tree is also very useful, because another advantage of the thorn tree is its physiological role and species characteristics, which happens to be used to control desertification.
In addition, the tree also has the advantage of being able to fix nitrogen, which is good for soil improvement and can also improve soil fertility.
Moreover, the leaves of the thorn tree can be comparable to Huanghuali after professional carving, so it is fully capable of promoting the production of high-end handicrafts, improving the ecological environment while taking into account economic benefits.
The existence of the thorn tree does provide raw materials for the production of handicrafts, and its wood is expensive for a reason, firstly because of its small quantity, and secondly, because it has high performance and is suitable for a wide range of uses.
Therefore, in the current days, people also have to find the reason for the thorn tree, if there are other uses, the thorn tree is likely to become the 21st century timber era.
epilogue
As a precious wood, the Thorn Tree has been valued and protected, but as a "forgotten" wood for more than a hundred years, people are more curious about its talent and potential, so the development of the Thorn Tree is far from stopping, and I believe there will be more unexpected surprises, but this is also the joint efforts of more scientists and researchers.