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CARRá (Huberodendron patinoi)
Trade Name
Carrá
Scientific Name
Huberodendron patinoi Cuatrec.
Family
BOMBACACEAE
Common Names
Carrá (Ecuador); Coco Volador (Colombia); Naguare (Colombia); Carrá (Colombia)
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
The trees are reported to reach heights of 40 m, with trunk diameters ranging from 80 to 100 cm. They develop boles that are up to 20 m long in the average, with very long buttresses, up to 15 m tall.
Natural Habitat
Huberodendron patinoi occurs in forest types of varying humidity.
Natural Distribution
The species has been found in Panama. Otherwise populations are confined to Choco, Cordoba, Valle del Cauca and other parts of Colombia and also Ecuador.
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Tangential diameter of vessel lumina 200 micras or more (large). Vessels per mm2 less than 6 (rare). Multiple perforation plates. Axial parenchyma in marginal or in seemingly marginal bands. Apotracheal axial parenchyma diffuse and/or diffuse in aggregates. Paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. Axial parenchyma in continuous tangential lines (included in reticulate a Occasionally rays storied. Rays storied.
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Odor
It has no characteristic odor or taste.
Color
The sapwood is pale yellow, the heartwood is light reddish brown color.
Grain
Straight or irregular grain is common in this species.
Texture
A coarse texture is reported in this species.
Luster
The wood surfaces tend to be low to moderately 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)
0.58
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.64
Total shrinkage Tangential (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
6.8
Total shrinkage Radial (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
4.7
Recommended Dry Kiln Schedule
JUNAC-A
Dimensional stability ratio (Total Tangential Shrinkage %/Total Radial Shrinkage %)
1.5
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)
1311
Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
164000
Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
719
Compression perpendicular to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
58
Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
77
Janka hardness (side) 12%MC (kgf)
426
Janka hardness (end grain) 12%MC (kgf)
624
Workability
Turning
30
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
HOUSING GENERAL, beams, joists, boards, fittings, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, TURNING, TOOLS, agricultural tools, PACKING, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts
General Housing
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
Beams
- 11 - Prospect: The wood database
Joists
- 12 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part I-Tropical American Species
Boards
- 13 - Dry kiln schedules for commercial woods. Temperate and tropical. Section III. Latin American (Mexico, Central, and South America) Woods–Conventional Temperatures
Fittings
- 19 - Silica in Timbers
Panels, Veneers
- 25 - Directory of Timber Trade Malaysia
Turning
- 30 - Embassy of Honduras in Japan
Tools
- 42 - Utilización Industrial de Nuevas Especies Forestales en el Perú.
Agricultural Tools
- 44 - Atlas of Peruvian Woods
Packing
- 45 - Recopilación y Análisis de Estudios Tecnológicos de Maderas Peruanas
Handcraft
- 66 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VII. Caracteristicas anatomicas. propiedades fisicomecanicas, de secado, y tratabilidad de la madera juvenil de Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav. Oken.)
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