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FAVA FOLHA FINA (Piptadenia suaveolens)
Trade Name
Fava folha fina
Scientific Name
Piptadenia suaveolens Miq.
Family
LEGUMINOSAE
Common Names
Pikimissiki (French Guiana); Alimiao (French Guiana); Pikin-misiki (Surinam); Manari balli (Guyana); Parica grande da terra firme (Brazil); Parica branco (Brazil); Timbaúba (Brazil); Fava Folha Fina (Brazil); Timborana (Brazil); Faveira-Ferro (Brazil); Fava-De-Rosca (Brazil)
Scientific Name Synonyms
Pseudopiptadenia suaveolens (Miq.) J.W. Grimes; Piptadenia suaveolens Griseb.; Newtonia suaveolens (Miq.) Brenan
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
The trees are reported to be medium size. The boles are straight and cylindrical, with commercial lengths of 13 to 20 m, and diameters of 65 up to 85 cm. It presents small to well developed buttresses, up to 4.5 m tall.
Natural Habitat
Piptadenia suaveolens is found on well drained to wet soils, in primary and secondary forests. Piptadenia is reported to regrow from the stump.
Natural Distribution
In Brazil it is reported in the Para state.
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Wood diffuse porous. Styloids or solid deposits in heartwood vessels. Vestured pits. Vessels per mm2 less than 6 (rare). Simple perforation plates. Vessel-ray pits similar to intervessel pits in size and shape. Intervessel pits small, 7 micras or less. Paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. Axial parenchyma winged aliform (uni or bilateral winged). Occasionally prismatic crystals in non-chambered axial parenchyma cells. Prismatic crystals in chambered axial parenchyma cells and/or in fibe 4 to 10 rays per mm (medium). Rays exclusively uniseriate. Homogeneous rays and/or sub-homogeneous rays (all ray cells procumbent). Oil and/or mucilage cells associated with the axial and/or ray parenchyma (idioblasts).
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Odor
Odor and taste are indistinct.
Color
The heartwood is distinct, it is brown to reddish-brown, slightly different from the sapwood which is pale brown.
COLOR INDEX (1=Black, 7=Light yellow,white)
5
Grain
It has interlocked grain.
Texture
This species is reported to have a fine to medium texture.
Luster
This wood is commonly of moderate luster.
Natural Durability
This species is reported to be resistant against decay and insects attack.
Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)
2
Resistance To Impregnation
It is moderately permeable to water based preservatives, but impermeable to oil based ones.
Wood Physical Properties
Basic Density or Specific Gravity (O.D. weight/vol. green) (g/cm³)
0.74
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.84
Total shrinkage Tangential (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
7.7
Total shrinkage Radial (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
5.0
Drying Defects
Ease of Drying: It is easy to air season and it kiln dries at a fairly rapid rate. Drying Defects: Moderate warping and slight checking are reported.
Recommended Dry Kiln Schedule
BR-B
Dimensional stability ratio (Total Tangential Shrinkage %/Total Radial Shrinkage %)
1.5
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)
1392
Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
145500
Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
748
Compression perpendicular to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
129
Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
144
Janka hardness (side) 12%MC (kgf)
816
Janka hardness (end grain) 12%MC (kgf)
882
Workability
Sawing
Cutting resistance is generally high.
Rotary Veneer Cutting
P. suaveolens is reported to be easy to peel and sliced.
Sliced Veneer
P. suaveolens is reported to be easy to peel and sliced.
Planing
It does not finish well in planing.
Turning
30
Sanding
It does not give good results in sanding.
Polishing
Polishing of this species is reportedly easy.
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
EXTERIOR GENERAL, paling, stakes posts, HOUSING GENERAL, joists, boards, steps, panelling, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, common furniture, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, Decorative veneer, TURNING, turned furniture, BENDING, tennis rackets, SPORTS, table tennis, TOOLS, tool handles, agricultural tools, PACKING, light packing, pallets, CONTAINERS, truck bodies, truck flooring, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, door core
Exterior General
- 1 - Tabela de resultados de ensaios fisicos e mecanicos
Paling Fence Pickets
- 4 - Estudo dendrologico e determinacao das caracteristicas fisicas e mecanicas da bicuiba
Stake Posts
- 5 - Propriedades fisicas e mecanicas da madeira e do contraplacado de Pinus elliottii
General Housing
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
Joists
- 12 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part I-Tropical American Species
Boards
- 13 - Dry kiln schedules for commercial woods. Temperate and tropical. Section III. Latin American (Mexico, Central, and South America) Woods–Conventional Temperatures
Steps
- 17 - Tree Conservation Database
Paneling
- 18 - W3TROPICOS Missouri Botanical Garden
Furniture Cabinets
- 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
Furniture, Common
- 23 - Handbook of Hardwoods
Panels, Veneers
- 25 - Directory of Timber Trade Malaysia
Decorative veneer
- 28 - Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forest of Fiji
Turning
- 30 - Embassy of Honduras in Japan
Turned Articles
- 32 - Embassy of Cote d`Ivoire in Japan
Bending
- 35 - Embassy of Myanmar in Japan
Tennis Rackets
- 37 - Annual Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation 1998-ITTO
Sports
- 38 - Annual Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation 1998-ITTO
- 41 - Embassy of the Philippines
Tools
- 42 - Utilización Industrial de Nuevas Especies Forestales en el Perú.
Tool Handles
- 43 - Maderas de Bolivia (Características y Usos de 55 Maderas Tropicales)
Agricultural Tools
- 44 - Atlas of Peruvian Woods
Packing
- 45 - Recopilación y Análisis de Estudios Tecnológicos de Maderas Peruanas
Light Packing
- 46 - ECUADOR, Inventario y Aprovechamiento de los Bosques del Sur Ecuatoriano
Pallets
- 48 - The strength properties of timbers
Truck Body
- 53 - Timbers of the New World
Truck Flooring
- 54 - Bulletin of the Government Forest Experiment Station N.157: Identification of Tropical Woods
Shipbuilding
- 55 - Tropical Timber Atlas of Latin America
Other & Musical Instruments
- 63 - Madeiras do Brazil II
Door Cores
- 76 - Descripción General y Anatómica de 105 Maderas del Grupo Andino.
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