JARANA (Lecythis lurida)
Trade Name
Jarana
Scientific Name
Lecythis lurida (Miers) S.A. Mori Lecythis lurida (Miers) S.A. Mori
Family
LECYTHIDACEAE
Common Names
Jouatii (French Guiana); Tamoene (French Guiana); Lebi loabi (French Guiana); Inegosso (French Guiana); Mahot rouge (French Guiana); Mata mata (Brazil); Wina kakaralli (Guyana); Makeralli (Guyana); Toledo wood (Guyana); Manbarklak (Venezuela); Oemanbarklak (Surinam); Idatimon (Surinam); Manbarklak (Surinam); Jarana (Brazil); Jarana Da Folha Miúda (Brazil); Jarana Da Folha Grande (Brazil); Inuíba Vermelha (Brazil); Inhaíba (Brazil); Imbaíba De Rego (Brazil); Castanha Jarana (Brazil); Japacanim (Brazil); Inhaíba-Do-Rego (Brazil); Ingarana-Da-Terra-Firme (Brazil)
Scientific Name Synonyms
Lecythis jarana (Huber ex Ducke) A.C. Sm.; Holopyxidium jarana Huber ex Ducke; Eschweilera serrulata Miers; Eschweilera lurida Miers; Eschweilera jarana (Huber ex Ducke) Ducke; Eschweilera jarana var. latifolia Ducke; Chytroma jarana Huber
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
It is a small to medium sized tree, 12 to 18 m tall, 40 to 60 cm in diameter. The boles are straight and cylindrical, without buttresses.
Natural Habitat
Lecythis lurida is found in terra firme rain forests in the lower Amazon and in the Atlantic forests of northern South America. It prefers the higher, well drained, areas in primary and secondary forests.
Natural Distribution
In Brazil it is reported in Espirito Santo, Minas Gerais and Bahia states.
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Tyloses common. Vessels per mm2 less than 6 (rare). Axial parenchyma in continuous tangential lines (included in reticulate and scalariform). Occasionally pith fleck. Prismatic crystals in chambered axial parenchyma cells and/or in fibers. Silica bodies in the ray cells. Occasionally heterogeneous rays and/or multiseriate heterogeneous rays.
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Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Color
The heartwood is light brown, slightly yellowish, becoming blood red, sharply demarcated from the yellowish cream sapwood.
COLOR INDEX (1=Black, 7=Light yellow,white)
4
Grain
It has straight grain.
Texture
This species is usually reported to have a medium texture.
Luster
The wood surface is moderate in luster.
Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)
2
Wood Physical Properties
Basic Density or Specific Gravity (O.D. weight/vol. green) (g/cm³)
0.81
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.93
Total shrinkage Tangential (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
12.6
Total shrinkage Radial (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
6.7
Drying Defects
Ease of Drying: Air drying is rated as moderate. Drying Defects: Slight risk of warping and checking.
Dimensional stability ratio (Total Tangential Shrinkage %/Total Radial Shrinkage %)
1.9
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)
1656
Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
772
Workability
Sawing
Sawing of this species is reported to be rather difficult.
Machining
The machinability is considered difficult because of its high density.
Planing
Planing operations are rather difficult.
Turning
30
Boring
It is difficult to bore.
Finishing
Finishing of this wood is easy.
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
EXTERIOR GENERAL, stakes posts, crossties, HOUSING GENERAL, flooring, TURNING, TOOLS, tool handles, PACKING, heavy packing, CONTAINERS, truck bodies, truck flooring
Exterior General
- 1 - Tabela de resultados de ensaios fisicos e mecanicos
Stake Posts
- 5 - Propriedades fisicas e mecanicas da madeira e do contraplacado de Pinus elliottii
Crossties
- 8 - Maderas latinoamericas. III, Podocarpus standleyi ,Podocarpus oleifolius, Drims granadensis, Magnolia poasana y Didymopanax pittieri
General Housing
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
Flooring
- 14 - Handbook of Hardwoods
Turning
- 30 - Embassy of Honduras in Japan
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
Heavy Packing
- 47 - Arvores Brasileiras
Truck Body
- 53 - Timbers of the New World
Truck Flooring
- 54 - Bulletin of the Government Forest Experiment Station N.157: Identification of Tropical Woods
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