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Astronium graveolens Jacq.

Gonçalo alves; muiracoatiara; urunday

Other names

International recognized trade name (ATIBT) Muiracatiara
English Gonçalo alves; muiracoatiara; urunday
Other names glassywood (BZ); aderno, aroeirão, gibatão (BR); ron rón (CR, GT, NI, PA); gateado (VE); jobillo, palo de cera, palo de culebra, gateado galán (MX); jovillo (CR); palo obrero (NI); ciruelillo, quita calzón (HN); tigrillo, tolerante, cucaracho (PA); zebrawood, tigerwood (GB, US)

Further information

Intkey
COL
Wikipedia
FSC
Xylotheque

Origin

Geographic Regions Caribbean
States and Territories Peru; Costa Rica; Nicaragua; Belize; El Salvador; Panama; Colombia (Bolívar, Casanare, Chocó, La Guajira, Magdalena, Sucre); Bolivia (Beni, La Paz, Pando, Santa Cruz); S-Brazil (Paraná); Paraguay (Canindeyu, Central, San Pedro); Ecuador; Peru; N-Brazil (Pará, Tocantins); NE-Brazil (Piauí, Pernambuco, Bahia); WC-Brazil (Goiás, Brasilia Distrito Federal, Mato Grosso do Sul); SE-Brazil (Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro); S-Surinam; Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan); Venezuela (Anzoategui, Bolívar, Carabobo, Cojedes, Delta Amacuro, Falcon, Guarico, Lara, Miranda, Sucre, Tachira, Yaracuy, Zulia); Honduras

Botany

Reich Plantae
Tribe Tracheophyta
Gymnosperm Angiosperm
Class Magnoliopsida
Order Sapindales
Family Anacardiaceae
Genus Astronium
Species graveolens
Author citation Jacq.
Scientific name Astronium graveolens Jacq.

Habitus

Wood type Hardwood
Growth habit Baum

Microscopic features

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

Macroscopic features

Wood odor Kein ausgeprägter Geruch
Growth ring boundaries indistinct or not recognizable
Heartwood with color stripes
Strip in the heartwood Mit Farbstreifen
Color heartwood braun/rot

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 0.69-0.95 kg/m3

Appearances

Wood

Gonçalo alves; muiracoatiara; urunday

Astronium graveolens , ©MundoForestal-Costa Rica

Bark

Gonçalo alves; muiracoatiara; urunday

, Bark , ©Dennis Wilson

Leaves

Gonçalo alves; muiracoatiara; urunday

, Leaves , ©Dennis Wilson

Gonçalo alves; muiracoatiara; urunday

, Leaves , ©Dennis Wilson

Gonçalo alves; muiracoatiara; urunday

, Leaves , ©Dennis Wilson