| False
heartwood - Abnormal colorations of the log central area different
from the normal color of the wood at wood species which normally are not
developing heartwood. |
Fungal
heartwood stains and streaks / Red heart - Red to brown-red
coloration sometimes with a violet or grey-black shade, with unregulary
outline different from the anually ring. |
| Beech
star heart*) - Brown- to-red to grey-to-black coloration with
star outline sometimes strongly delimited through dark lines. |
Fungal
sapstains/Red coloration of resinous wood - Coloration in different
shades of pink, pink- yellow, redish, red to red-brown, under stains and
strips without determining the weakning of the wood or its rottenes. |
| Storage
coloration*) - Total coloration of timber pieces in colors from
light to black produced during the storage-drying time. |
Coloured
sapstains - Coloration appearing at wet resinous wood mitigating
through drying. |
| Blue
stain - Blue coloration with grey and green shades. |
Mould
- Fungus of different colors on timber piece surface. |
| Suffocated
wood - Xilofag fungus alteration of wood. White marmored areas
delimited by black lines. The wood resistence is affected. |
Sap rot
/ Decay - Profound change of color, resistence, consitency,
mechanical and phisical properties of wood due to the attach of xilofag
fungus. |
| Soft sap
rot / Advanced decay - Sap rot in advanced stage wood - britelling
substance. |
Hard
sap rot / Incipient decay - Sap rot when the wood keep his fiber
structure. |
