< Back TAMBORIL (Enterolobium maximum) Print Friendly View
TAMBORIL (Enterolobium maximum)
Trade Name
Tamboril
Scientific Name
Enterolobium maximum Ducke
Family
LEGUMINOSAE
Common Names
Timburi (Brazil); Timboriúva (Brazil); Timbaúba (Brazil); Tamboril (Brazil); Tambori (Brazil); Monjolo (Brazil); Faveira-Folha-Fina (Brazil); Fava-Orelha-De-Negro (Brazil); Fava-Folha-Fina (Brazil); Chimbó (Brazil); Carova (Brazil)
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
This species develops straight and cylindrical boles. The boles reach commercial lengths of up to 14 m, with trunk diameters ranging from 50 to 70 cm.
Natural Distribution
This species occurs in the Amazonian forest of Brazil.
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). Occasionally vessels with colored deposits. Vessels per mm2 less than 6 (rare). Simple perforation plates. Vessel-ray pits simi Paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. Axial parenchyma lozenge-aliform. Occasionally prismatic crystals in chambered axial parenchyma cells and/or in fibers. 3 to 4 cells per parenchyma strand. 4 to 10 rays per mm (medium). Rays 1 to 4 seriate. Occasionally septate fibers present. Fibers with simple to minutely bordered pits.
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Odor
It has no distinct odor or taste.
Color
The heartwood is light brown to pinkish gray distinct from the white sapwood.
COLOR INDEX (1=Black, 7=Light yellow,white)
3
Grain
This species is reported to have interlocked grain.
Texture
Texture is usually medium to coarse.
Luster
Luster is usually moderate.
Natural Durability
It is reported to have low durability against fungi and insects.
Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)
5
Resistance To Impregnation
It is easily treatable with good retention of preservative substances.
Wood Physical Properties
Basic Density or Specific Gravity (O.D. weight/vol. green) (g/cm³)
0.42
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.45
Total shrinkage Tangential (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
4.6
Total shrinkage Radial (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
2.4
Recommended Dry Kiln Schedule
BR-A
Dimensional stability ratio (Total Tangential Shrinkage %/Total Radial Shrinkage %)
1.9
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)
667
Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
86000
Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
409
Compression perpendicular to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
51
Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
84
Janka hardness (side) 12%MC (kgf)
314
Janka hardness (end grain) 12%MC (kgf)
449
Workability
Planing
Planing operations are easy, but it has a bad finishing
Turning
30
Sanding
Sanding operations are easy, with a good finishing.
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
HOUSING GENERAL, boards, panelling, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, common furniture, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, cores, common veneer, TURNING, cutlery, BENDING, tennis rackets, SPORTS, table tennis, TOOLS, tool handles, PACKING, light packing, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, boats, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts, door core
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
Paneling
- 18 - W3TROPICOS Missouri Botanical Garden
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
Cores
- 27 - Embassy of Brazil in Japan
Common Veneer
- 29 - Embassy of Ecuador in Japan
Turning
- 30 - Embassy of Honduras in Japan
Knife Handles
- 33 - Embassy of Gabon in Japan
Bending
- 35 - Embassy of Myanmar in Japan
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
- 41 - Embassy of the Philippines
Tools
- 42 - Utilización Industrial de Nuevas Especies Forestales en el Perú.
Tool Handles
- 43 - Maderas de Bolivia (Características y Usos de 55 Maderas Tropicales)
Packing
- 45 - Recopilación y Análisis de Estudios Tecnológicos de Maderas Peruanas
Light Packing
- 46 - ECUADOR, Inventario y Aprovechamiento de los Bosques del Sur Ecuatoriano
Shipbuilding
- 55 - Tropical Timber Atlas of Latin America
Boats
- 56 - Manual de Identificación de Especies Forestales de la Subregión Andina.
Handcraft
- 66 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VII. Caracteristicas anatomicas. propiedades fisicomecanicas, de secado, y tratabilidad de la madera juvenil de Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav. Oken.)
Door Cores
- 76 - Descripción General y Anatómica de 105 Maderas del Grupo Andino.
Please Provide Information To View Producer Information