TENTO (Ormosia coccinea)
Nombre comercial
Tento
Nombre científico (con autor)
Ormosia coccinea (Aubl.) Jacks.
Familia
LEGUMINOSAE
Nombres Comunes
Caracará (Guyana); Peonia (Puerto Rico); Tinctoria (Brazil); Peonia (Venezuela); Chocho (Colombia); Palo Yugo (Bolivia); Huairuro (Bolivia); Tento (Brazil); Huayruro (Perú); Panacoco Blanc; Kokriki; Agipau; Baarakara; Barakara; Algodoncillo
Nombres científicos sinónimos (con autores)
Robinia coccinea Aubl.; Ormosia subsimplex Spruce ex Benth.
DESCRIPCIÓN DEL ÁRBOL
Descripción botánica
The trees are reported to reach heights of 30 m, with trunk diameters ranging from 50 to 70 cm. They develop straight and cylindrical boles that are up to 20 m long.
Hábitat natural
Ormosia coccinea natural growth range is the tropical rain forests of America. It prefers well drained soils.
Distribución natural
It grows in Central America, the Caribbean and South America down to Perú.
IDENTIFICACIÓN DE LA MADERA
Descripción anatómica de la madera
Wood diffuse porous. Vessels solitary and in short radial multiples. Occasionally tangential diameter of vessel lumina 200 micras or more. Occasionally white deposits in heartwood vessels. Vessels per mm2 less than 6 (rare). Simple perforation plates. Vessel-ra Axial parenchyma apparent with the naked eye. Axial parenchyma lozenge-aliform. Axial parenchyma aliform. Axial parenchyma confluent. Occasionally axial parenchyma storied. Prismatic crystals in chambered axial parenchyma cells and/or in fibers. 3 to 4 cells pe 4 to 10 rays per mm (medium). Occasionally rays and/or axial elements irregularly storied. Rays 1 to 4 seriate. Heterogeneous rays and/or multiseriate heterogeneous rays. Body ray cells procumbent with one row of upright and/or square marginal cells (Kribs-II Fibers with distinctly 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
The wood has no specific odor or taste.
Color
The sapwood is light brown, the heartwood is yellowish red color.
Indice de Color (1= Negro, violeta; 7= Amarillo claro, blanco)
5
Grano
The grain is mostly interlocked.
Veta
A coarse texture is reported in this species.
Brillo
This species is high in luster.
Indice de Durabilidad Natural (1=Muy alta, 7=Muy baja)
5
PROPIEDADES FÍSICAS DE LA MADERA
Densidad Básica (Peso anhidro/Vol. saturado) (g/cm³)
0.65
Densidad seca al aire (Peso y volúmen CH12%) (g/cm³)
0.72
Contracción Tangencial Total (Saturado hasta anhidro) (%)
7.3
Contracción Radial Total (Saturado hasta anhidro) (%)
3.8
Defectos por secado
Ease of Drying: Air seasoning and kiln drying are reported to be slow. Drying Defects: It has a tendency to check, split and collapse, but without severe cupping or bowing. Risk of casehardening is reported. Kiln Schedules: This species should be dried carefully.
Calendario de Secado
JUNAC-A
Estabilidad Dimensional (Contracción Total Tangencial %/Contracción Total Radial %)
1.9
PROPIEDADES QUÍMICAS DE LA MADERA
PROPIEDADES MECÁNICAS DE LA MADERA
Resistencia a flexión (Módulo de ruptura) CH12% (kgf/cm²)
1124
Rigidez (Módulo de elasticidad) CH12% (kgf/cm²)
152221
Resistencia a la compresión paralela a la fibra CH12% (kgf/cm²)
645
Resistencia a la compresión perpendicular a la fibra CH12% (kgf/cm²)
71
Cizallamiento radial CH12% (kgf/cm²)
98
Dureza Janka (lados) CH12% (kgf)
519
Dureza Janka (extremos) CH12% (kgf)
630
TRABAJABILIDAD
Aserrado
Sawmilling of this species is reportedly easy.
Corte de chapa rotativa
This species is interesting for peeling.
Chapa tranchada
This species is interesting for peeling.
Cepillado
Planing of this species is fair.
Moldurado
Molding operations are rather easy.
Taladrado
Boring operations are fair.
Clavado
Good nail-holding properties.
Encolado
Gluing behavior is reportedly good.
Usos Reportados
USOS FINALES (RESUMEN)
EXTERIOR GENERAL, bridges, poles, HOUSING GENERAL, beams, joists, boards, flooring, frames, steps, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, common furniture, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, PACKING, heavy packing, pallets, CONTAINERS, truck bodies, truck flooring, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts
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)
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
PALLETS_EMBALAJES
- 45 - Recopilación y Análisis de Estudios Tecnológicos de Maderas Peruanas
Envase pesado
- 47 - Arvores Brasileiras
Pallets
- 48 - The strength properties of timbers
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
artesanía
- 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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