GUADARIPO (Nectandra guadaripo)
Trade Name
Guadaripo
Scientific Name
Nectandra guadaripo Rohwer
Family
LAURACEAE
Common Names
Guagaripo (Ecuador); Guadaripo (Ecuador)
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
The trees are reported to reach heights of 30 m, with trunk diameters that can go up to 180 cm. They develop straight and cylindrical boles. It presents buttresses of 2.5 m tall and 5 to 15 cm in thickness. Over mature trees are often hollow in the base.
Natural Habitat
A tall tree of primary lowland rainforest, it is reported to be one of the most abundant species in the north-western forests of Ecuador.
Natural Distribution
The geographical range for this species is the north-western forests of Ecuador and the southern-western forests of Colombia.
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Occasionally vessels exclusively solitary (over 90%). Tangential diameter of vessel lumina 200 micras or more (large). Colored deposits in heartwood vessels. Vessels per mm2 less than 6 (rare). Paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. Axial parenchyma aliform. Axial parenchyma confluent.
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Odor
This species has a pleasant smell even after drying.
Color
The sapwood is not clearly differentiated, the heartwood is yellow with dark yellowish brown bands when dry.
Grain
Interlocked grain is reported in this species.
Texture
This species is reported to have a medium to coarse texture.
Luster
The wood surfaces tend to be moderately to highly 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)
0.40
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.43
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Workability
Machining
Machining operations are rather easy.
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
HOUSING GENERAL, fittings, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, luxury furniture, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, Decorative veneer, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, boats, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
General Housing
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
Fittings
- 19 - Silica in Timbers
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
Decorative veneer
- 28 - Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forest of Fiji
Shipbuilding
- 55 - Tropical Timber Atlas of Latin America
Boats
- 56 - Manual de Identificación de Especies Forestales de la Subregión Andina.
Other & Musical Instruments
- 63 - Madeiras do Brazil II
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