Teak is indigenous to India, Myanmar, Thailand and Laos. Its range is tropical, occurring between latitudes 25°N and 9°N (White, 1991). The natural distribution is discontinuous and the eastern or Burmese populations are considered to be distinct from the western or Indian populations. Although teak is the name used for international trade, there are many local names used as well: sagun, tegu, tegina, thekku (India); lyiu, kyun
(Burma); mai sak (Thailand); jati (Indonesia); fati (Malaysia); teca (Latin America); and teck (France) (Chudnoff, 1984; Keiding, 1985).
Teak was thought to have first been planted in the Indonesian archipelago on the islands of Madura and Sulawesi about 300 to 400 years ago and is now considered to be a naturalized species in Indonesia (Keiding, 1977). On the Island of Java there have been more than one million hectares planted with teak since the middle of the Nineteenth Century (White, 1991).
Teak (Tectona grandis) is the premier fine furniture wood being grown in plantations around the world. Although teak was once managed on rotations of 80 to 100 years, current rotation lengths have been shortened to 20 or 25 years for commercial wood production.
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