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FAVEIRA (Parkia pendula)
Trade Name
Faveira
Scientific Name
Parkia pendula (Willd.) Benth. ex Walp.
Family
LEGUMINOSAE
Common Names
Tangama (Ecuador); Guarango (Colombia); Visgueiro-Da-Terra-Firme (Brazil); Visgueiro (Brazil); Paricá (Brazil); Jacareúba (Brazil); Faveira-Rosa (Brazil); Faveira-Grande-Do-Igapó (Brazil); Faveira-Amargosa (Brazil); Faveira (Brazil); Esponja (Brazil); Araputanga (Brazil); Toco Paragua (Bolivia); Visqueiro (Brazil); Parica; Orelha De Macaco (Brazil); Muirarema (Brazil); Jupuúba (Brazil); Faveira Bolota (Brazil); Faveiro (Brazil); Kouatakama; Acacia Male; Cascarón
Scientific Name Synonyms
Mimosa pendula (Willd.) Poir.; Inga pendula Willd.
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
The commercial lengths are up to 16 m or more, with diameters from 75 to 100 cm. The logs are reported to be straight and cylindrical. Buttresses up to 4 m are also reported.
Natural Habitat
Parkia pendula is found in northern South America, growing on a wide variety of soils in primary and secondary forests.
Natural Distribution
It is found from the Guyanas down to Bolivia. In Brazil it is reported in the Amazonas, Para, Pernambuco, Bahia and Alagoas states.
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Wood diffuse porous. Vessels solitary and in short radial multiples. Occasionally tangential diameter of vessel lumina 200 micras or more. Vessels per mm2 less than 6 (rare). Simple perforation plates. Vessel-ray pits similar to intervessel pits in size and sh Axial parenchyma lozenge-aliform. Axial parenchyma aliform. Occasionally axial parenchyma confluent. 3 to 4 cells per parenchyma strand. 4 to 10 rays per mm (medium). Rays 1 to 4 seriate. Homogeneous rays and/or sub-homogeneous rays (all ray cells procumbent). Fibers with simple to minutely bordered pits.
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Odor
Odor or taste are absent.
Color
The heartwood and sapwood are distinct. The heartwood is light brown to brown and the sapwood is pale yellow
COLOR INDEX (1=Black, 7=Light yellow,white)
5
Grain
The grain is reported to be straight or interlocked.
Texture
The texture of the wood is frequently coarse.
Luster
The wood surface is described as moderate in luster.
Natural Durability
It is reported to have a moderate resistance against fungi and low resistance to termites attack.
Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)
6
Resistance To Impregnation
The sapwood is reported to be easy to preserve but the heartwood is untreatable.
Wood Physical Properties
Basic Density or Specific Gravity (O.D. weight/vol. green) (g/cm³)
0.48
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.53
Total shrinkage Tangential (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
6.8
Total shrinkage Radial (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
3.4
Drying Defects
Drying Defects: Risk of warping and checking. Risk of casehardening is also reported. Kiln Schedules: Careful drying is recommended.
Recommended Dry Kiln Schedule
BR-B
Dimensional stability ratio (Total Tangential Shrinkage %/Total Radial Shrinkage %)
2.0
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)
977
Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
106000
Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
447
Compression perpendicular to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
75
Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
81
Janka hardness (side) 12%MC (kgf)
482
Janka hardness (end grain) 12%MC (kgf)
490
Workability
Rotary Veneer Cutting
Faveira is interesting for peeling interior plies.
Sliced Veneer
Faveira is interesting for peeling interior plies.
Planing
Planing is rated as easy, but bad finishing is reported because of torn surfaces.
Boring
Boring is easy but fair finishing is reported.
Sanding
Sanding is easy but fair finishing is reported because of fuzzy surfaces.
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
HOUSING GENERAL, panelling, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, TOOLS, tool handles, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, boats, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts
General Housing
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
Paneling
- 18 - W3TROPICOS Missouri Botanical Garden
Furniture Cabinets
- 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
Panels, Veneers
- 25 - Directory of Timber Trade Malaysia
Tools
- 42 - Utilización Industrial de Nuevas Especies Forestales en el Perú.
Tool Handles
- 43 - Maderas de Bolivia (Características y Usos de 55 Maderas Tropicales)
Shipbuilding
- 55 - Tropical Timber Atlas of Latin America
Boats
- 56 - Manual de Identificación de Especies Forestales de la Subregión Andina.
Handcraft
- 66 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VII. Caracteristicas anatomicas. propiedades fisicomecanicas, de secado, y tratabilidad de la madera juvenil de Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav. Oken.)
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