Hainan Huanghuali sapling cut down and indeed has no heartwood; the buyer of the wood suffers heavy losses while onlookers say he deserved it!
With Hainan Huanghuali (Hainan rosewood) so hard to find, many enthusiasts, seeking the thrill of buying and cutting wood themselves, travel thousands of miles directly to Hainan to buy trees on site. Most of the old trees in Hainan have already been almost completely cut down, and most of what remains are small saplings still in their growth period. Fellow enthusiasts all know that Hainan Huanghuali grows slowly, and saplings generally have no heartwood, yet buyers of the wood still stop at nothing to take a gamble!
Generally what they buy are Hainan Huanghuali trees planted by local villagers themselves, and each tree is marked with some kind of mark. When buying wood, drilling a hole in the log to check for heartwood is impossible; the buyer can only rely on his own luck and his experience in gambling on trees to make a preliminary judgment! Of course, what he relies on even more is personal luck!
After picking out a tree that satisfies him from a large Huanghuali plantation, the player buying the tree can negotiate the price with the villager. Once the price is settled, the tree is cut down directly!
A sharp-eyed player can tell that this kind of tree, whose bark is still green, is a sapling Hainan Huanghuali tree. Such material basically has no heartwood, and the moisture content of the inner wood is relatively high, so it cannot be used to make handicrafts. But the buyer of the wood still hopes to make a profit from this tree. The still-living Hainan Huanghuali tree falls with a sigh under the brutal logging. After it is cut open, there is no heartwood in the material at all; this time the buyer's money was spent in vain, yet the onlookers quietly say he deserved it, perhaps speaking up for the tree, or perhaps feeling the buyer is too blinded by greed!
Although this Hainan Huanghuali tree looks quite thick and sturdy, after it is cut down, neither the root nor the trunk has any heartwood, which caught the person who spent so much money on the wood completely off guard!
Now many enthusiasts care only about making a profit from Hainan Huanghuali and casually buy small trees that have grown for only about ten years; the chance of such trees having heartwood is too small. When local villagers in Hainan plant Huanghuali, they often also worry that trees they have grown for many years will be stolen. If someone comes to buy, even if the tree is very small, they will sell it; they feel that selling is always better than having it stolen!
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Hainan Huanghuali is already extremely scarce in quantity now, and cutting down such saplings is not only a waste of resources but also, to a certain extent, makes Huanghuali logs even more scarce. Yet people are always like this, making endless demands on nature for their own selfish desires, and dealing deadly blows to tree after tree that has no ability to resist at all!
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