MORAL (Chlorophora tinctoria)
Nombre comercial
Moral
Nombre científico (con autor)
Chlorophora tinctoria (L.) Gaudich. ex Benth.
Familia
MORACEAE
Nombres Comunes
Tatayivasaiyu; Tatayiba; Tatane tauba; Tatajuba-de-espinho; Tatajiba; Tajuba; Taiuva; Runa; Palomoro; Morita; Moreira; Moratana; Limarona; Legno giallo; Jocomico; Jataiba; Gelbholz; Geelhout; Fustetto; Fresno de America; Fiselholz; Dyewood; Dyers mulberry; Brasil palo amarillo; Bois d`orange; Amoreira branca; Amoeira; Amarello; Sota (Ecuador); Mora (Bolivia); Palo Mora (Bolivia); Dinde Fustete (Colombia); Mora (Colombia); Moral Amarillo (Venezuela); Palo Negro (Guatemala); Limulana (Perú); Insira Caspi (Perú); Insira (Perú); Tatayivásaiyú; Taiúva (Brazil); Red Fustic; Palo De Mora (Colombia); Palo Amarillo (Bolivia); Moral (Mexico); Mora Insira; Fustic; Escambrón De Madera; Dinde (Colombia); Brasil; Bois Jaune; Boid D`Orange; Barossa; Avinje; Auroeira; Amarelo (Brazil); Moral De Loma; Mora (Venezuela); Limão (Brazil); Huil Yaga; Gelbes Brasilholz; Espinheiro Branco (Brazil); Echter Fustik; Cubaholz; Avinge; Amarillo; Amarcira; Mora Amarilla; Moral Fino (Ecuador); Toyuba; Touvo; Tatayva; Tatajuba (Brazil); Palo-Moro; Pau Amarelo (Brazil); Palo Naranjo; Odumbaum; Moral Fustete (Colombia); Fustic Mulberry; Cuba Wood; Fustic Wood; Yellow Wood; Tustete; Tustic
Nombres científicos sinónimos (con autores)
Morus tinctoria L.; Maclura tinctoria var. affinis (Miq.) Bureau; Maclura tinctoria var. chlorocarpa (Liebm.) Bureau; Maclura affinis Miq.
DESCRIPCIÓN DEL ÁRBOL
Descripción botánica
It is a small or medium size tree, attaining heights from 15 to 30 m, and trunk diameters of about 50 to 100 cm. The branches are sometimes armed with spines.
Hábitat natural
The species is found throughout tropical America, growing in primary or secondary rain forests.
IDENTIFICACIÓN DE LA MADERA
Descripción anatómica de la madera
Wood diffuse porous. Vessels solitary and in short radial multiples. Tangential diameter of vessel lumina 150 to 200 micras (medium). Tyloses common. Occasionally vessels per mm2 less than 6. Simple perforation plates. Vessel-ray pits similar to intervessel pit Axial parenchyma apparent with the naked eye. Occasionally axial parenchyma in marginal or in seemingly marginal bands. Occasionally paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. Occasionally axial parenchyma lozenge-aliform. Axial parenchyma alifo 4 to 10 rays per mm (medium). Rays 1 to 4 seriate. Homogeneous rays and/or sub-homogeneous rays (all ray cells procumbent). Fibers with simple to minutely bordered pits.
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Foto macroscópica de la madera, plano radial
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Foto microscópica sección transversal de la madera
Disponibilidad
Status de protección por CITES
Unrestricted
DESCRIPCIÓN GENERAL DE LA MADERA
Olor
Odor or taste are absent.
Color
The sapwood is clearly differentiated. The heartwood is golden yellow, often with darker streaks, changing upon exposure to brown or russet. Sometimes it presents a reddish tinge.
Indice de Color (1= Negro, violeta; 7= Amarillo claro, blanco)
5
Grano
Grain is reported to be interlocked.
Veta
The texture is medium.
Brillo
Luster is reported to be medium to high.
Durabilidad Natural
It has very high natural resistance to decay and attack by other wood destroying organisms.
Indice de Durabilidad Natural (1=Muy alta, 7=Muy baja)
1
Contenido de sílice
Silica Content: The wood presents silica crystals which produce a moderate blunting effect on the cutting tools. Silica Value: 0.05
Dificultad para impregnar
The heartwood is reported to have very poor response to preservative treatment. The sapwood can be treated if incised.
PROPIEDADES FÍSICAS DE LA MADERA
Densidad Básica (Peso anhidro/Vol. saturado) (g/cm³)
0.78
Densidad seca al aire (Peso y volúmen CH12%) (g/cm³)
0.89
Contracción Tangencial Total (Saturado hasta anhidro) (%)
5.2
Contracción Radial Total (Saturado hasta anhidro) (%)
2.9
Defectos por secado
Ease of Drying: Moderately difficult to season, it dries rapidly. Drying Defects: A tendency to moderate checking and slight warping are reported. Casehardening may occur when thick pieces are dried.
Calendario de Secado
UK-E; JUNAC-A
Estabilidad Dimensional (Contracción Total Tangencial %/Contracción Total Radial %)
1.8
PROPIEDADES QUÍMICAS DE LA MADERA
PROPIEDADES MECÁNICAS DE LA MADERA
Resistencia a flexión (Módulo de ruptura) CH12% (kgf/cm²)
1572
Rigidez (Módulo de elasticidad) CH12% (kgf/cm²)
176836
Resistencia a la compresión paralela a la fibra CH12% (kgf/cm²)
870
Cizallamiento radial CH12% (kgf/cm²)
118
Dureza Janka (lados) CH12% (kgf)
1288
Dureza Janka (extremos) CH12% (kgf)
1179
TRABAJABILIDAD
Aserrado
This species is difficult to saw.
Pérdida de filo_romado
Dulling effect on tool edges is reported to be moderate.
Cepillado
The material is reported to be fairly difficult to plane if interlocked grain is present.
Moldurado
The timber is reported to be difficult to mould.
Torneado
30
Clavado
The timber nails satisfactorily.
Encolado
It is reported to have good gluing properties.
Lijado
The wood is difficult to sand.
Acabado
It is reported to give a smooth finish.
Barnizado
The wood stains satisfactorily.
Sacar lustre
It has a good polishing.
Facilidad para herramientas manuales
This wood is reported to be difficult to work with hand tools.
Usos Reportados
USOS FINALES (RESUMEN)
EXTERIOR GENERAL, bridges, poles, paling, stakes posts, rails, crossarms, crossties, piers, HOUSING GENERAL, beams, joists, boards, flooring, frames, steps, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, common furniture, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, Decorative veneer, TURNING, turned furniture, SPORTS, bowling polo balls, TOOLS, tool handles, agricultural tools, PACKING, heavy packing, CONTAINERS, cooperage, truck bodies, truck flooring, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, boat deck, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts, yoke
EXTERIOR GENERAL
- 1 - Tabela de resultados de ensaios fisicos e mecanicos
Puentes
- 2 - 25 madeiras da amazonia de valor comercial, caracterizacao, macroscopica, usos comuns e indices qualificativos
Postes de transmisión
- 3 - Estudo dendrologico e determinacao das caracteristicas fisicas e mecanicas do genipapo (Genipa americana)
Poste de palizada
- 4 - Estudo dendrologico e determinacao das caracteristicas fisicas e mecanicas da bicuiba
Postes cerca
- 5 - Propriedades fisicas e mecanicas da madeira e do contraplacado de Pinus elliottii
Barandilla
- 6 - Physical and mechanical properties of Eucalyptus deglupta Blume grown in Costa Rica
Crucetas
- 7 - Maderas latinoamericanas. II, Quercus alata Q. costaricensis y Q. eugeniaefolia
Durmientes
- 8 - Maderas latinoamericas. III, Podocarpus standleyi ,Podocarpus oleifolius, Drims granadensis, Magnolia poasana y Didymopanax pittieri
Pilotes
- 9 - Maderas latinoamericanas. IV, Nectandra sp. Ocotea austinii, Persea sp. aff. vesticula, Persea schiedeana
VIVIENDA GENERAL
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
vigas
- 11 - Prospect: The wood database
Viguetas
- 12 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part I-Tropical American Species
Tablas
- 13 - Dry kiln schedules for commercial woods. Temperate and tropical. Section III. Latin American (Mexico, Central, and South America) Woods–Conventional Temperatures
Pisos
- 14 - Handbook of Hardwoods
Marcos
- 16 - Woods of the World
Peldaños
- 17 - Tree Conservation Database
MUEBLES Y GABINETES
- 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
Muebles comunes
- 23 - Handbook of Hardwoods
TABLEROS Y CHAPAS
- 25 - Directory of Timber Trade Malaysia
chapa decorativa
- 28 - Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forest of Fiji
Torneado
- 30 - Embassy of Honduras in Japan
Artículos torneados
- 32 - Embassy of Cote d`Ivoire in Japan
IMPLEMENTOS DEPORTIVOS
- 38 - Annual Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation 1998-ITTO
bolillos (Tacos)
- 40 - Internet
HERRAMIENTAS
- 42 - Utilización Industrial de Nuevas Especies Forestales en el Perú.
Mangos herramientas
- 43 - Maderas de Bolivia (Características y Usos de 55 Maderas Tropicales)
Mangos agrícolas
- 44 - Atlas of Peruvian Woods
PALLETS_EMBALAJES
- 45 - Recopilación y Análisis de Estudios Tecnológicos de Maderas Peruanas
Envase pesado
- 47 - Arvores Brasileiras
CONTENEDORES
- 50 - Properties of imported tropical woods
Duelas toneles
- 51 - Recopilacion de propiedades mecanicas de maderas creciendo en Chile
Carrocería de camión
- 53 - Timbers of the New World
Pisos de vagones_contenedores
- 54 - Bulletin of the Government Forest Experiment Station N.157: Identification of Tropical Woods
CONSTRUCCIÓN NAVAL
- 55 - Tropical Timber Atlas of Latin America
Botes_cubierta
- 59 - Programa Nacional de uso Sostenible de los Bosques e Incremento a las Exportaciones.
artesanía
- 66 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VII. Caracteristicas anatomicas. propiedades fisicomecanicas, de secado, y tratabilidad de la madera juvenil de Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav. Oken.)
Yokes
- 74 - World Timbers, Vol.2, North and South America
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