Cordia alliodora
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 |
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
Cordia alliodora , ©MundoForestal-Costa Rica
Bark
COXA , Bark , ©Dennis Wilson
Flowers
COXA , Flowers , ©Dennis Wilson