Irregularly long cylindrical, frequently twisted, 7-20 cm long, 1-2.5 cm in diameter. Externally purplish red or purplish brown; bark lax, striped-lamellar, with more than 10 layers over-lapped, easily exfoliated. Apex sometimes bearing branched remains of a stem. Light, texture lax and soft, easily broken, fracture uneven, wood relatively small, yellowish white or yellow. [8]