Mai Sak Tree /Tectona grandis L.f.

Description

 Mai Sak Tree / Tectona grandis L.f. from the family of Verbenaceae

Mai Sak trees fastly produce Oxygen So Our Flag Tree For Carbon Removal and provide coverage for slower growing hardwood trees.

It is a large deciduous tree that reaches a height of 40 m in the dense forests of Cambodia.

It has been grown in Asia since ancient times and now it is very popular for planting in moist tropical regions.

The Mai Sak tree trunk is very big going direct to the heavens and has a very circular bole which becomes fluted when old. Bark is grayish brown with longitudinal cracks and the inner part is red and sticky sap.

Leaf is compound, alternate and green in colour, and produces a red tint when it is rubbed. The flower is small about 8 mm across and 45 cm long of head and the colour is pale purple to white.The flowers appear on the top of branches in the non-shaded part of the crown. Fruit is green, hairy, round and woody.

When the tree is young, the fruit’s colour is pale green, and brown when it is mature. One Mai Sak fruit normally produces 2-4 seeds and there are roughly many 1000s of seeds per kilogram.  Teak is not indigenous to Cambodia. A number of plantations were established before 1970, such as in Kampong Cham, Pursat and Rattanak Kiri provinces.

There are 29.035 million hectares of natural teak forest estimated in India, Thailand, Lao PDR and Myanmar.The Mai Sak Tree can live in most climates in Asia. In the Northern part of Togo, it grows in a region with annual rainfall of nearly 600 mm and in Bangladesh it grows in a region with annual rainfall close to 4,000mm.The altitude range of this species is 0-1,200 meters and  annual temperature 14-36 °C.The best planting conditions are deep soil,well drained,fertile soil PH around 6.5-8.

Teak is used in varieties of things such as building -construction-furniture and so much more. Teak is also suitable for producing an attractive veneer, which is extensively used in the manufacture of furniture and interior fittings.

There is no seed source in Cambodia so we have purchased our own seed supply from Thailand so we can start planting at the end of the rainy season 2022 .Teak starts flowering when it reaches the age of 8-10 years old.The flower usually appears during the rainy season from June to September. Fruiting starts from November to January and falls in the dry season, from May to September. Normally teak fruits are collected as they fall to the ground. Fruits fall from the tree during the dry season.

We will be planting our initial first hectare at a spacing of 1.8 × 1.8 meters. We will conduct a thinning process  as the plantation grows 4 times at 5,10,18 and 28 years intervals. Our Mai Sak plantation that we establish will have a tree density of 2,200 trees per /hectare.

Planting Direct fully  believes that this Tree is key to Carbon Capture and we advice  to all Supporters-Tree Planters-Investors TO BUY  THIS TREE NOW