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Guazuma ulmifolia Lam.

Bastard cedar; West Indian elm (US)

Other names

International recognized trade name (ATIBT)
English Bastard cedar; West Indian elm (US);
Français bois d'orme
Español vácima
Other names kamba akã (PY); ; guácima, cuaulote, aquiché, kabal-pixoy, pixoy, acashti, ajillá, majagua de toro, nocuana-yana, palote negro, parandesiqua, tablote, tzuni, tzyui, uiguie, ya-ana, yaco granadillo, yaco de venado, zam-mi, áquich, ajya, k'olin kakaw (MX); guácimo blanco (VE); guásimo (PE); guásima (CU); bolaina negra (PE) Guácimo

Further information

Intkey
COL
Wikipedia
FSC

Origin

Geographic Regions Caribbean
States and Territories Cayman Isl.; Cuba; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Virgin Isl. (St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas, Tortola); Antigua; Barbados; Dominica; Grenada; Grenadines; Guadeloupe; Marie-Galante; Martinique; Montserrat; Nevis; Saba; St. Kitts; Saint Lucia; St. Vincent; Isla Margarita; Costa Rica; Peru; Nicaragua; Guatemala; Honduras; Ecuador; Guyana; Surinam; French Guiana; Bolivia (Beni, Cochabamba, La Paz, Pando, Santa Cruz); Venezuela (Amazonas, Anzoategui, Apure, Barinas, Bolívar, Carabobo, Cojedes, Venezuela Distrito Federal, Falcon, Guarico, Lara, Merida, Miranda, Nueva Esparta, Portuguesa, Sucre, Yaracuy, Zulia); -Brazil (Pará, Acre, Rondônia); NE-Brazil (Pernambuco, Bahia, Alagoas, Sergipe); WC-Brazil (Mato Grosso, Goiás, Brasilia Distrito Federal, Mato Grosso do Sul); SE-Brazil (Minas Gerais, São Paulo); Argentina (Chaco, Corrientes, Formosa); Paraguay (Alto Paraguay, Central, Concepcion, Cordillera, Paraguari); Belize; Panama; Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan, Zacatecas); Colombia (Amazonas, Antioquia, Atlántico, Bolívar, Boyacá, Caldas, Casanare, Cauca, Chocó, Córdoba, Cundinamarca, Huila, La Guajira, Magdalena, Meta, Norte de Santander, Santander, Sucre, Tolima, Valle, Vaupés, Vichada); Australia [I] (Queensland [I]); Mauritius [I]; La Réunion [I]; tropical Africa [I]; Myanmar [I]; Pakistan [I]; India [I]; Vietnam [I]; Sri Lanka [I]; Philippines [c]; Java [I]
[I] = Introduced
[c] = Commercially cultivated

Botany

Reich Plantae
Tribe Tracheophyta
Gymnosperm Angiosperm
Class Magnoliopsida
Order Malvales
Family Malvaceae
Genus Guazuma
Species ulmifolia
Author citation Lam.
Scientific name Guazuma ulmifolia Lam.

Habitus

Wood type Hardwood
Growth habit Baum

Microscopic features

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

Macroscopic features

Wood odor Kein ausgeprägter Geruch
Growth ring boundaries clearly recognizable
Heartwood without color stripes
Strip in the heartwood Ohne Farbstreifen
Color heartwood hell

Natural durability
(according to EN 350)

Mushrooms field DC

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

Density, oven dry u =12%, lower limit 480.00 kg/m3
Density, oven dry u =12%, upper limit 650.00 kg/m3

Appearances

Leaves

Bastard cedar;  West Indian elm (US)

, Leaves , ©Dennis Wilson

Bastard cedar;  West Indian elm (US)

, Leaves , ©Dennis Wilson

Bastard cedar;  West Indian elm (US)

, Leaves , ©Dennis Wilson

Branch

Bastard cedar;  West Indian elm (US)

, Branch , ©Dennis Wilson

Fruit

Bastard cedar;  West Indian elm (US)

, Fruit , ©Dennis Wilson