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FROMAGER (Ceiba samauma)

Trade Name

Fromager

Scientific Name

Ceiba samauma (Mart.) K. Schum.

Family

BOMBACACEAE

Common Names

Samauma (Brazil); Ceiba (Colombia); Toborochi (Bolivia); Samahuma (Peru); Huimba (Peru); Huimba Negra (Peru)

Scientific Name Synonyms

Eriodendron samauma Mart.

Description Of The Tree

Botanical Description

It is a very large tree, up to 40 m in height, it develops a trunk diameter of about 120 cm or more above the well developed buttresses. Heights over 40 m and trunk diameters of up to 200 cm are also possible.

Natural Habitat

Ceiba samauma is a pioneer, fast growing, species found in the humid areas of primary forests and in secondary forests.

Natural Distribution

The geographical range for this species is the Amazonian forest of Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia.

Wood Identification

Anatomic Description Of Wood

Wood diffuse porous. Vessels solitary and in short radial multiples. Tangential diameter of vessel lumina 200 micras or more (large). Tyloses common. Vessels per mm2 less than 6 (rare). Simple perforation plates. Vessel-ray pits coarse throughout the ray cell. O Occasionally axial parenchyma in marginal or in seemingly marginal bands. Apotracheal axial parenchyma diffuse and/or diffuse in aggregates. Axial parenchyma storied. Occasionally prismatic crystals in non-chambered axial parenchyma cells. 3 to 4 cells per pa Occasionally rays less than 4 per mm (rare). Larger rays width 0. 1 mm or more and 2 mm or more in height. Rays non-storied. Larger rays more than 4 seriate. Prismatic crystals in the ray cells. Heterogeneous rays and/or multiseriate heterogeneous rays. Body ray Fibers with simple to minutely bordered pits.

  • Wood Macro Photo Radial Plane
  • Wood Micro Photo Of Transversal Section

Availability

Cites Status

Unrestricted

General Wood Description

Odor

It has no discernible odor or taste.

Color

The sapwood is white, the heartwood is yellowish red color.

COLOR INDEX (1=Black, 7=Light yellow,white)

4

Grain

The grain is mostly straight

Texture

The wood is reported to have a coarse texture.

Luster

The wood is described as moderate in luster.

Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)

5

Wood Physical Properties

Basic Density or Specific Gravity (O.D. weight/vol. green) (g/cm³)

0.62

Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)

0.69

Total shrinkage Tangential (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)

7.7

Total shrinkage Radial (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)

4.4

Recommended Dry Kiln Schedule

JUNAC-B

Dimensional stability ratio (Total Tangential Shrinkage %/Total Radial Shrinkage %)

1.8

Wood Chemical Properties

Wood Mechanical Properties

Workability

Sawing

Sawing of this species is reported to be rather easy.

Planing

Planing operations are rather easy.

Moulding

Molding operations are rather easy.

Boring

This species is easy to bore.

REFERENCED USES

End Uses Summary

HOUSING GENERAL, beams, joists, boards, frames, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, common furniture, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, PACKING, CONTAINERS, truck bodies, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts

General Housing
  • 10 - Silica in Timbers
Beams
  • 11 - Prospect: The wood database
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
Frames
  • 16 - Woods of the World
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
Packing
  • 45 - Recopilación y Análisis de Estudios Tecnológicos de Maderas Peruanas
Truck Body
  • 53 - Timbers of the New World
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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