American Journal of Plant Sciences, 2016, 7, 1192-1197 Published Online June 2016 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/ajps http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ajps.2016.78114 How to cite this paper: Maiti, R., Rodriguez, H.G. and Kumari, A. (2016) Wood Density of Ten Native Trees and Shrubs and Its Possible Relation with a Few Wood Chemical Compositions. American Journal of Plant Sciences, 7, 1192-1197. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ajps.2016.78114 Wood Density of Ten Native Trees and Shrubs and Its Possible Relation with a Few Wood Chemical Compositions Ratikanta Maiti 1 , Humberto Gonzalez Rodriguez 1 , Aruna Kumari 2 1 Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Linares, México 2 Agricultural College, Professor Jaya Shankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Jagtial, India Received 6 April 2016; accepted 6 June 2016; published 9 June 2016 Copyright © 2016 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract The present study was undertaken in Forest Science Faculty, Universidad de Nuevo Leon, Mexico on variability of Wood density and its possible relation to few wood chemical composition and wood fiber cell structure anatomy. The results reveal that among 10 specie studied, there exist a large variation in wood density (0.51 to 1.09), and few wood chemical composition such % carbón (37.14 to 44.07), nitrogen (9.18 to 19.22), sulphur (31.45 to 33/82), lignin (15/28 to 24.35), he- micellulose (19.94 to 27.36%), and % cellulose (33.69 to 45.92). In general, though there was no clear relationship between wood density and other chemical composition of wood. It was ob- served that the species having moderate to high wood density contained >40% carbón, >30% sulphur and >40% cellulose and more or less 20% lignin. It seems that carbón, sulphur, cellulose and lignin content contribute to greater density. The wood fiber cell with wall lignification seems to be related to higher wood density. Keywords Wood Density, Wood Chemical Composition, Cellulose, Lignin, Carbón Concentration, Variability 1. Introduction Wood density is an important wood quality parameter in carbon cycle research and offers resistance in the trees against wind, storms, cavitation of xylem vessels, and other environmental stresses. The wood density of tropical