Anatomical Properties and Colorized Illustrations of Important Commercial Wood Species from Hunan in China. 2011. Many col. figs. XI, 437 p. gr8vo. Hardcover. - Bilingual (Chinese/ English).

Provides fundamental information about wood identification, as well as wood anatomical properties of 50 important commercial wood species (24 families, 38 genera) from Hunan Province, China. - Materials and methods / Measurement and calculation of wood stereological characteristics/ Identification and utilization of wood: compiling wood macrostructure and microstructure keys in softwood (5 families, 10 genera, and 16 species) and hardwood (19 families, 28 genera, and 34 species). For each species: Latin name, English name, Commercial name, Distribution, Wood macroscope and microscope structures, wood stereological characteristics, wood specimen, wood machining properties and wood utilization are described in detail, and 308 colorized photographs of solid wood and three sections of microscopic features are included.