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Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav.) Oken

American light cordia; Cypress; Satinwood; Spanish elm; White Cypress (Trinidad & Tobago); cypre; salmwood (TT); brown silverballi (GY)

Other names

International recognized trade name (ATIBT) Pardillo
English American light cordia; Cypress; Satinwood; Spanish elm; White Cypress (Trinidad & Tobago); cypre; salmwood (TT); brown silverballi (GY);
Français Canalete; bois de Chypre, bois de rose, bois saumée (HT)
Español alatrique, árbol de ajo (PE); ajo ajo (BO); canalete, nogal de cafetal, nogal de capaletas (CO); pardillo (VE); laurel blanco, l. de costa (EC); bojón, popocotle, tambor hormiguero (MX); laurel de savana (HN); laurel hembra, laurel hormiguero (NI); capá (DO, PR); caparó, guacimilla (DO); barô­a, varô­a (CU);
Other names

Further information

Intkey
COL
Wikipedia
FSC

Origin

Geographic Regions South America
States and Territories Venezuela (Aragua, Bolívar, Carabobo, Delta Amacuro, Venezuela Distrito Federal, Falcon, Merida, Miranda, Nueva Esparta, Tachira); NE-Brazil (Maranhao, Piauí); Nicaragua; Montserrat; tropical Africa [I]; Honduras; Bolivia (Beni, Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, La Paz, Pando, Santa Cruz, Tarija); Hispaniola; N-Brazil (Pará, Amazonas, Acre, Rondônia); Seychelles [I]; St. Vincent; Virgin Isl. (Jost van Dyke, St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas, Tortola, Virgin Gorda); Antigua; Barbados; Cuba; Ecuador; Costa Rica; French Guiana; Fiji [I]; Colombia (Antioquia, Arauca, Bolívar, Boyacá, Caldas, Cesar, Chocó, Cundinamarca, Huila, La Guajira, Magdalena, Nariño, Norte de Santander, Putumayo, Quindío, Santander, Sucre, Tolima, Valle); Martinique; El Salvador; Tobago; Panama; Peru; Belize; Borneo [I] (Sabah [I]); Trinidad; Surinam; Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Coahuila, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan); Guatemala; Puerto Rico; Isla Margarita; Guyana; Dominica; Guadeloupe; WC-Brazil (Mato Grosso, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul); Saint Lucia
[I] = Introduced

Botany

Reich Plantae
Tribe Tracheophyta
Gymnosperm Angiosperm
Class Magnoliopsida
Order Boraginales
Family Cordiaceae
Genus Cordia
Species alliodora
Author citation (Ruiz & Pav.) Oken
Scientific name Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav.) Oken

Habitus

Wood type Hardwood
Growth habit Baum

Microscopic features

Containers halbringporig/zerstreutporig
Intkey https://www.delta-intkey.com/wood/de/www/borcoall.htm

Macroscopic features

Wood odor Kein ausgeprägter Geruch
Color heartwood bis gelb

Natural durability
(according to EN 350)

Mushrooms field DC 2
Beetle D
Termites M
Lithophagous molluscs S

Impregnability according to EN 350

Impregnability of heartwood 1
Impregnability of the sapwood 3
Width of the sapwood s

Raw density oven-dried u =12%
(e.g. according to EN 350)

Density, oven dry u =12%, lower limit 520.00 kg/m3
Density, oven dry u =12%, mean value 540.00 kg/m3
Density, oven dry u =12%, upper limit 550.00 kg/m3

Appearances

Wood

American light cordia; Cypress; Satinwood; Spanish elm; White Cypress (Trinidad & Tobago); cypre; salmwood (TT); brown silverballi (GY)

Cordia alliodora , ©MundoForestal-Costa Rica

Bark

American light cordia; Cypress; Satinwood; Spanish elm; White Cypress (Trinidad & Tobago); cypre; salmwood (TT); brown silverballi (GY)

COXA , Bark , ©Dennis Wilson

Flowers

American light cordia; Cypress; Satinwood; Spanish elm; White Cypress (Trinidad & Tobago); cypre; salmwood (TT); brown silverballi (GY)

COXA , Flowers , ©Dennis Wilson