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.
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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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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