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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 Cuba; Hispaniola; Puerto Rico; Virgin Isl. (Jost van Dyke, St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas, Tortola, Virgin Gorda); Antigua; Barbados; Dominica; Guadeloupe; Martinique; Montserrat; Saint Lucia; St. Vincent; Isla Margarita; Tobago; Trinidad; 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); Belize; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; El Salvador; Costa Rica; Panama; Colombia (Antioquia, Arauca, Bolívar, Boyacá, Caldas, Cesar, Chocó, Cundinamarca, Huila, La Guajira, Magdalena, Nariño, Norte de Santander, Putumayo, Quindío, Santander, Sucre, Tolima, Valle); Ecuador; Peru; Costa Rica; Peru; Ecuador; Bolivia (Beni, Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, La Paz, Pando, Santa Cruz, Tarija); N-Brazil (Pará, Amazonas, Acre, Rondônia); NE-Brazil (Maranhao, Piauí); WC-Brazil (Mato Grosso, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul); Venezuela (Aragua, Bolívar, Carabobo, Delta Amacuro, Venezuela Distrito Federal, Falcon, Merida, Miranda, Nueva Esparta, Tachira); Guyana; Surinam; French Guiana; Fiji [I]; Borneo [I] (Sabah [I]); Seychelles [I]; tropical Africa [I]
[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