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TANIMBUCA (Terminalia oblonga)
Trade Name
Tanimbuca
Scientific Name
Terminalia oblonga (Ruiz & Pav.) Steud.
Family
COMBRETACEAE
Common Names
Guayabón (Venezuela); Rifari (Peru); Chamisa (Peru); Verdolago Amarillo (Bolivia); Yuyún (Ecuador); Guayabillo (Ecuador); Yacushapana (Peru); Azúcar Huayo (Peru); Guayabón (Ecuador)
Scientific Name Synonyms
Terminalia chiriquensis Pittier; Gimbernatea oblonga Ruiz & Pav.; Chuncoa oblonga (Ruiz & Pav.) Pers.
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
It is often about 25 to 35 m in height, with a trunk diameter up to 100 cm. The boles are straight, 15 to 20 m long. It presents small to medium sized steep buttresses.
Natural Habitat
Terminalia oblonga is a fast growing, pioneer species. It prefers alluvial soils. This species occurs in the lowlands below 600 m of altitude.
Natural Distribution
From Guatemala south to Brazil, Bolivia and Peru.
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Wood diffuse porous. Vessels solitary and in short radial multiples. Tangential diameter of vessel lumina 150 to 200 micras (medium). Occasionally tyloses common. Vessels per mm2 10 to 20 (abundant). Vessels per mm2 less than 6 (rare). Simple perforation plates Occasionally axial parenchyma in marginal or in seemingly marginal bands. Paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. Axial parenchyma confluent. Occasionally axial parenchyma oblique and/or sinuous. Prismatic crystals in non-chambered axial pare Occasionally rays more than 10 per mm (abundant). Rays more than 10 per mm (abundant). Rays exclusively uniseriate. Occasionally prismatic crystals in the ray cells. Homogeneous rays and/or sub-homogeneous rays (all ray cells procumbent). Fibers with simple to minutely bordered pits.
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Odor
It has no characteristic odor or taste.
Color
The sapwood is not clearly differentiated, the heartwood is yellowish brown.
COLOR INDEX (1=Black, 7=Light yellow,white)
3
Grain
The grain is reported to be straight or irregular.
Texture
Texture is reported to be medium to coarse.
Luster
This species has moderate to high luster.
Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)
6
Wood Physical Properties
Basic Density or Specific Gravity (O.D. weight/vol. green) (g/cm³)
0.56
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.61
Drying Defects
Ease of Drying: Air drying is reported to vary from fairly easy to moderately difficult depending on the species. Drying Defects: Risk of warping and checking is reported to be high. Some risk of casehardening. Kiln Schedules: Careful drying is recommended.
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)
854
Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
98000
Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
395
Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
93
Janka hardness (side) 12%MC (kgf)
479
Workability
Sawing
Sawing of this wood is reported to be fair to difficult.
Planing
This species is easy to plane.
Moulding
It is easy to mold.
Turning
30
Boring
Boring operations are reported to be fair.
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
HOUSING GENERAL, beams, joists, flooring, steps, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, Decorative veneer, TURNING, TOOLS, tool handles, CONTAINERS, truck bodies
General Housing
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
Beams
- 11 - Prospect: The wood database
Joists
- 12 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part I-Tropical American Species
Flooring
- 14 - Handbook of Hardwoods
Steps
- 17 - Tree Conservation Database
Panels, Veneers
- 25 - Directory of Timber Trade Malaysia
Decorative veneer
- 28 - Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forest of Fiji
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)
Truck Body
- 53 - Timbers of the New World
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