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GUADARIPO (Nectandra guadaripo)

Trade Name

Guadaripo

Scientific Name

Nectandra guadaripo Rohwer

Family

LAURACEAE

Common Names

Guagaripo (Ecuador); Guadaripo (Ecuador)

Description Of The Tree

Botanical Description

The trees are reported to reach heights of 30 m, with trunk diameters that can go up to 180 cm. They develop straight and cylindrical boles. It presents buttresses of 2.5 m tall and 5 to 15 cm in thickness. Over mature trees are often hollow in the base.

Natural Habitat

A tall tree of primary lowland rainforest, it is reported to be one of the most abundant species in the north-western forests of Ecuador.

Natural Distribution

The geographical range for this species is the north-western forests of Ecuador and the southern-western forests of Colombia.

Wood Identification

Anatomic Description Of Wood

Occasionally vessels exclusively solitary (over 90%). Tangential diameter of vessel lumina 200 micras or more (large). Colored deposits in heartwood vessels. Vessels per mm2 less than 6 (rare). Paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. Axial parenchyma aliform. Axial parenchyma confluent.

Availability

Cites Status

Unrestricted

General Wood Description

Odor

This species has a pleasant smell even after drying.

Color

The sapwood is not clearly differentiated, the heartwood is yellow with dark yellowish brown bands when dry.

Grain

Interlocked grain is reported in this species.

Texture

This species is reported to have a medium to coarse texture.

Luster

The wood surfaces tend to be moderately to highly lustrous

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

3

Wood Physical Properties

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

0.40

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

0.43

Wood Chemical Properties

Wood Mechanical Properties

Workability

Machining

Machining operations are rather easy.

REFERENCED USES

End Uses Summary

HOUSING GENERAL, fittings, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, luxury furniture, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, Decorative veneer, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, boats, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

General Housing
  • 10 - Silica in Timbers
Fittings
  • 19 - Silica in Timbers
Furniture Cabinets
  • 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
Furniture, Luxury
  • 22 - Dry kiln schedules for commercial woods. Temperate and tropical. Section IV-Asian and Oceanian Woods
Panels, Veneers
  • 25 - Directory of Timber Trade Malaysia
Decorative veneer
  • 28 - Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forest of Fiji
Shipbuilding
  • 55 - Tropical Timber Atlas of Latin America
Boats
  • 56 - Manual de Identificación de Especies Forestales de la Subregión Andina.
Other & Musical Instruments
  • 63 - Madeiras do Brazil II

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