Rattans are extensively used for making furniture and baskets. When cut into sections, rattan can be used as wood to make furniture. Rattan accepts paints and stains like many other kinds of wood, so it is available in many colours; and it can be worked into many styles. Moreover, the inner core can be separated […]
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Rattan (from the Indonesia rotan) is the name for the roughly 600 species of palms in the tribe Calameae, native to tropical regions of Africa, Asia and Australia. Most rattans differ from other palms in having slender stems, 2-5 cm diameter, with long internodes between the leaves; also, they are not trees but are vine-like, […]