Teak (Tectona), likewise known as jati occurs as genus of tropical hardwood trees in the family Verbenaceae, native in the south & southeast of Asia, and is unremarkably witnessed as a component of monsoon forest vegetation. It is big trees, growing to 30-40 m tall, deciduous in the dry season.

There are trinity metal money: Tectona grandis (Most common Teak) is by far the first, sustaining a wide distribution inside India and Indo-China. Tectona hamiltoniana (Dahat Teak) occurs as local endemic species confined to Myanmar, where these are endangered. Tectona philippinensis (Philippine Teak) is endemic to the Philippines, and is likewise endangered.

Cultivation and uses
A timber is utilized in the manufacture of outdoor furniture, boat decks, and more articles in which upwind trend lines is desired. These are as well utilized for indoor flooring.

Teak is easy worked & has natural oils that make it suitable for even utilise inside contaminated locations, in which these are durable potentially once non treated by having oil or varnish. Teak cut from either either old trees grown slowly inside natural forests is additional durable & harder; teak from immature trees grown within plantations is thomas more prone to splitting & a body of water damage.

Its popularity has led to incubation inside sustainable production throughout a seasonally dry tropics around forestry plantations. Teak doesn't develop in the rainforest and its consumption encompasses a different placed of environmental concerns, like a disappearance of uncommon old-incubation teak. Experiments come in to arrive at vegetive propagation from either of these month old stem cuttings.

Tremendously of the globe's teak is exported by Indonesia and Myanmar.