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MAçARANDUBA (Manilkara amazonica)

Trade Name

Maçaranduba

Scientific Name

Manilkara amazonica (Huber) A. Chev.

Family

SAPOTACEAE

Common Names

Maçaranduba-Verdadeira (Brazil); Paraju (Brazil); Maparajuba (Brazil); Maçaranduba (Brazil)

Scientific Name Synonyms

Mimusops amazonica Huber; Manilkara surinamensis (Miq.) Dubard; Manilkara bidentata subsp. surinamensis (Miq.) T.D

Description Of The Tree

Botanical Description

The tree is usually large, attaining heights of 25 m and a diameter at breast height of 90 cm. The trunk is usually swollen at the base, with straight and cylindrical boles, clear up to 18 m. It presents abundant white latex.

Natural Distribution

The natural distribution of the Manilkara genus is Tropical South America.

Wood Identification

Anatomic Description Of Wood

Tyloses common. Vessels per mm2 more than 20 (very abundant). Vessel-ray pits larger than the intervessel pits. Axial parenchyma in continuous tangential lines (included in reticulate and scalariform). Rays more than 10 per mm (abundant).

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

Availability

Cites Status

Unrestricted

General Wood Description

Odor

It has no characteristic odor or taste.

Color

Heartwood and sapwood are distinct. The heartwood is light red when freshly cut, turning into to dark red or dark reddish brown after drying. The sapwood is pink to pale brown in color.

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

3

Grain

It has straight grain.

Texture

This wood has a somewhat fine texture.

Natural Durability

It is very resistant to fungi, but it is sensible to termites attack.

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

1

Resistance To Impregnation

This timber is reported to respond poorly to preservative treatment.

Wood Physical Properties

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

0.83

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

0.95

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

8.3

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

5.9

Drying Defects

Ease of Drying: Air seasoning is reported to be good when slow drying rates are used. Drying Defects: This species is reported to be prone to collapse.

Recommended Dry Kiln Schedule

BR-B

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

1.4

Wood Chemical Properties

Wood Mechanical Properties

Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)

1307

Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)

138000

Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)

648

Compression perpendicular to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)

155

Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)

163

Janka hardness (side) 12%MC (kgf)

887

Janka hardness (end grain) 12%MC (kgf)

928

Workability

Rotary Veneer Cutting

This species can be used for lamination.

Sliced Veneer

This species can be used for lamination.

Blunting Effect

The presence of resin may dull the cutting tools.

Turning

30

Boring

Boring of this species is reported to be easy.

Nailing

It requires pre-boring.

REFERENCED USES

End Uses Summary

EXTERIOR GENERAL, piers, HOUSING GENERAL, boards, flooring, TURNING, SPORTS, bowling polo balls, CONTAINERS, truck bodies, truck flooring, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, port pillar, port storage, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, violin, handicrafts, axle, yoke, shingle

Exterior General
  • 1 - Tabela de resultados de ensaios fisicos e mecanicos
Piers
  • 9 - Maderas latinoamericanas. IV, Nectandra sp. Ocotea austinii, Persea sp. aff. vesticula, Persea schiedeana
General Housing
  • 10 - Silica in Timbers
Boards
  • 13 - Dry kiln schedules for commercial woods. Temperate and tropical. Section III. Latin American (Mexico, Central, and South America) Woods–Conventional Temperatures
Flooring
  • 14 - Handbook of Hardwoods
Turning
  • 30 - Embassy of Honduras in Japan
Sports
  • 38 - Annual Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation 1998-ITTO
Balls Bowling Polo
  • 40 - Internet
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
Port Pillar
  • 61 - Manual de Diseño para Maderas del Grupo Andino
Port Storage
  • 62 - Estudio Tecnológico de Maderas del Perú (Zona Pucallpa) Vol I
Other & Musical Instruments
  • 63 - Madeiras do Brazil II
Violin
  • 64 - Maderas latinoamericanas. V. Carapa sp., Virola koschnyi, Terminalia lucida y Brosimum costaricanum.
Handcraft
  • 66 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VII. Caracteristicas anatomicas. propiedades fisicomecanicas, de secado, y tratabilidad de la madera juvenil de Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav. Oken.)
Axles
  • 73 - Handbook of Hardwoods
Yokes
  • 74 - World Timbers, Vol.2, North and South America
Shingles
  • 77 - Amazonian Timbers, Characteristics and Utilization Volume I; Tapajós National Forest

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