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    This document discusses the Shisham tree (Dalbergia sissoo), a deciduous tree native to South Asia. It provides details on the tree's classification, morphology, cultivation requirements, and common uses for its wood. Key points include: 1) Shisham is a deciduous tree that can grow up to 100 feet tall and is found in northern India, Pakistan, and southern Iran. 2) Its wood is golden brown to dark brown with deep streaks and is heavy, narrowly grained, and durable, making it suitable for construction, furniture, and other applications. 3) Shisham grows well along river banks below 900 meters in temperature ranging from below freezing to

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    This document discusses the Shisham tree (Dalbergia sissoo), a deciduous tree native to South Asia. It provides details on the tree's classification, morphology, cultivation requirements, and common uses for its wood. Key points include: 1) Shisham is a deciduous tree that can grow up to 100 feet tall and is found in northern India, Pakistan, and southern Iran. 2) Its wood is golden brown to dark brown with deep streaks and is heavy, narrowly grained, and durable, making it suitable for construction, furniture, and other applications. 3) Shisham grows well along river banks below 900 meters in temperature ranging from below freezing to

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    B. Sc (Hons.

    ) II Year
    B.Sc IV SEMESTER
    COURSE – 9: Development of Plants and their utilization
    Unit IV (Timber Plants)

    Shisham (Dalbergia sissoo Roxb.)


    Classification
    Phanerogams
    Dicotylendones
    Leguminales
    Fabaceae
    Dalbergia
    Dalbergia sissoo (Roxb.)

    General account of the properties of Shisham wood


    Eng.- Sissoo; Verna Shisham; Sanskrit- Shinshapa, arguru; Hindi- Shisham, sissu,
    sissai ; Bengali - Shisu; Gujrati- Sisam, tanach; Tamil-Sissu ittil; Kannada- Agaru,
    brindi; Punjab- Tali, shisham.
    1. A deciduous tree, often with crooked trunk and light crown and commonly as
    North Indian Rosewood, tree native to the Indian subcontinent and southern
    Iran.
    2. It occurs throughout the sub Himalayan tract from Ravi to Assam ascending up
    to 5000 ft.
    3. The sapwood is white to pale brownish white in colour and the heartwood
    golden brown to dark brown with deep brown streaks becoming dull on
    exposure.
    4. The wood structure is diffuse porous; growth rings may not always visible.
    Vessels are mostly large and not very numerous.
    5. It is heavy, narrowly interlocked grained and medium textured.
    6. It can be air or kiln seasoned. However, kiln seasoning enhances the value of
    timber as the colour darkens and the difference between lighter and darker
    bands gets intensified.
    7. The wood can be converted into ornamental veneers or commercial plywood of
    good quality.
    8. It is durable timber, especially for under water use.
    General morphological characteristics

    1. Distribution: Distributed in the temperate regions of both northern and southern


    hemispheres.
    2. Habit: Tropical trees providing a valuable dark timber, hydrophytes and
    xerophytes.
    3. Root: Tap root system, branched
    4. Stem: Tree attains height of about 100 ft. a girth up to 8 ft. and clear bole up to
    35 ft. cylindrical woody
    5. Leaves: Pinnate leaves with uneven number of leaflets. The leaves are composed
    of 3-5 broadly elliptic or ovate, acuminate leaflets arranged alternately on
    somewhat zigzag axis.
    6. Inflorescence: Racemose, panicle
    7. Flowers: Panicle of small, yellow or white papilionaceous and perigynous
    flowers, hermaphrodite, irregular, calyx 5, gamosepalous, corolla 5 unequal,
    aestivation descending imbricate
    8. Androecium: Stamens usually 10, diadelphous, Monadelphous, anthers bicelled,
    dorsifixed
    9. Gynoecium: Carpel 1, free, superior ovary, marginal placentation.
    10. Fruit: Fruit is thin, strap-shaped pod, 1-1/2- 4 inches long.
    11. Seed: 1-4 flattened seeds, many, exalbuminous
    12. Pollination: Entomophilous

    Cultivation

    Growing states: Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Bengal, Assam.

    Climate and Temperature: It is primarily found growing along river banks


    below 900 metres elevation. The temperature in its native range averages 10-
    40ºC, but varies from just below freezing to nearly 50ºC.
    Soil: Soil range from pure sand and gravel to rich alluvium of river banks. It
    can grow in slightly saline soils.

    Sowing: Seedlings are intolerant to shade. Propagation takes place commonly


    by root suckers and also by seeds. The seeds remain viable for only few
    months.

    Rainfall: It can withstand average annual rainfall up to 2000 millimetres and


    drought of 3-4 months.
    Uses of Shisham wood

    1. It is used for making high class furniture and cabinet wood throughout north
    India.
    2. It is highly valued as constructional and general utility timber on the account of
    its great strength, elasticity and durability and is used for all the purposes for
    which Indian rosewood is employed in South.
    3. It is esteemed for railway sleepers, musical instruments, Charpai legs, hammer
    handles, shoe heels, hookah tubes and tobacco pipes.
    4. Carefully selected and manufactured plywood logs satisfy the specifications
    prescribed for aircraft, and for this purpose, the wood from trees, growing on
    canal banks and in plantations is considered to be the best.
    5. It is used for making laminated skiis.
    6. It can be worked into decorative ornamental carvings.
    7. The pulp is used for making writing and printing papers.

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