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PETEREBI (Cordia trichotoma)

Trade Name

Peterebi

Scientific Name

Cordia trichotoma (Vell.) Arrab. ex Steud.

Family

BORAGINACEAE

Common Names

Varia colorada; Varia; Uruazeiro; Uruasinho; Urua; Taparai; Tambor; Suchicahue; Suchah; Spanish elm; Salmwood; Salaam; Prince wood; Peteribi saiyo; Petereri-hu; Petereby; Peterebi saiyu; Pau cacharro; Pardillo de monte; Pardillo; Palo de rosa del pais; Palo de rosa; Palo de maria; Nopo; Mutamba; Louro-do-sul; Louro-da-serra; Louro-batata; Louro pardo; Louro mutamba; Louro amarelo; Louro amarello; Louro; Loro negro; Loro amarillo; Loro; Laurel negro; Laurel macho; Laurel hembre; Laurel blanco; Laurel; Lapachillo; Hormiguero; Freijo; Frei jorge; Dzeui; Claraiba; Cautaro; Cascudinho; Capaw; Capa roja; Capa; Canjaro; Canalete de humo; Buhun; Brown silverballi; Bojon prieto; Bojon blanco; Bojon; Bois de cype; Bois de cipre; Bohun; Baria amarilla; Arbol del ajo; Amapa prieta; Alatrique; Ajui; Afata grande; Afata; Peterebi

Scientific Name Synonyms

Cordiada trichotoma Vell.; Cordia hassleriana Chodat

Description Of The Tree

Botanical Description

The trees are reported to reach heights of 20 to 30 m, with trunk diameters ranging from 70 to 90 cm. They develop well-formed and cylindrical boles.

Natural Habitat

Cordia trichotoma is a pioneer species found in secondary forests, in a wide range of well drained soils. In Brazil it is reported in the Atlantic rain forests, in the cerrado.

Natural Distribution

The geographical range for this species are the south-east forests of Brazil, Paraguay and the north of Argentina.

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Wood Identification

Anatomic Description Of Wood

Occasionally wood semi-ring porous and/or ring porous. Occasionally vessel clusters common. White deposits in heartwood vessels. Vessels per mm2 less than 6 (rare). Axial parenchyma in marginal or in seemingly marginal bands. Apotracheal axial parenchyma diffuse and/or diffuse in aggregates. Axial parenchyma aliform. Axial parenchyma confluent. Larger rays more than 4 seriate.

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  • Wood Micro Photo Of Transversal Section

Availability

Cites Status

Unrestricted

General Wood Description

Color

The heartwood is usually beige gray to yellowish brown gray in color. The color of the wood can be uniform or with dark fine veins.

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

4

Grain

Grain is reported to be straight or shallowly interlocked.

Texture

The texture is typically fairly fine.

Natural Durability

It has a moderate resistance to white-rot and brown-rot fungi. It has a good resistance against dry wood termites.

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

3

Resistance To Impregnation

The heartwood is moderately resistant to preservative treatment.

Wood Physical Properties

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

0.55

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

0.60

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

7.9

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

4.3

Recommended Dry Kiln Schedule

UK-E; US-T6-D2

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

1.8

Wood Chemical Properties

Wood Mechanical Properties

Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)

131000

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

708

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

166

Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)

108

Janka hardness (side) 12%MC (kgf)

529

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

529

Workability

Sawing

Sawing of this species is reportedly easy.

Rotary Veneer Cutting

It is interesting for peeling and slicing.

Sliced Veneer

It is interesting for peeling and slicing.

Blunting Effect

Wood of this species exerts a slight blunting effect on the cutting tools.

Planing

It is easy to plane.

Turning

30

Nailing

Good holding of nails.

Gluing

It has a good behavior in gluing.

Polishing

It is easy to polish.

REFERENCED USES

End Uses Summary

HOUSING GENERAL, boards, frames, steps, panelling, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, luxury furniture, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, faces, Decorative veneer, TURNING, lasts, BENDING, chairs, tennis rackets, SPORTS, bowling polo balls, table tennis, CONTAINERS, cooperage, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, boats, boat deck, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts, matches, door core, moldings

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
Frames
  • 16 - Woods of the World
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, 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
Faces
  • 26 - Annual Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation 1998-ITTO
Decorative veneer
  • 28 - Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forest of Fiji
Turning
  • 30 - Embassy of Honduras in Japan
Lasts
  • 34 - Embassy of Indonesia in Japan
Bending
  • 35 - Embassy of Myanmar in Japan
Chairs
  • 36 - Autoridad Nacional del Ambiente, Panama
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
Balls Bowling Polo
  • 40 - Internet
  • 41 - Embassy of the Philippines
Containers
  • 50 - Properties of imported tropical woods
Cooperage
  • 51 - Recopilacion de propiedades mecanicas de maderas creciendo en Chile
Shipbuilding
  • 55 - Tropical Timber Atlas of Latin America
Boats
  • 56 - Manual de Identificación de Especies Forestales de la Subregión Andina.
Boat Decking
  • 59 - Programa Nacional de uso Sostenible de los Bosques e Incremento a las Exportaciones.
Other & Musical Instruments
  • 63 - Madeiras do Brazil II
Handcraft
  • 66 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VII. Caracteristicas anatomicas. propiedades fisicomecanicas, de secado, y tratabilidad de la madera juvenil de Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav. Oken.)
Matches
  • 71 - Proprietes physiques et mecaniques des bois tropicaux, premier supplement
Door Cores
  • 76 - Descripción General y Anatómica de 105 Maderas del Grupo Andino.
Molding
  • 79 - Padronização da Nomenclatura Comercial Brasileira das Madeiras Tropicais Amazônicas, Sugestão

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