Table 25.—Characteristics and uses of selected trees, Brazil—Continued 
Native and trade Specific 
names Scientific name gravity Wood properties Principal uses Occurrence 
(air-dry) 
| | 
CGT Sane ele eee Ceiba pentandra. . . 0.4 | Pinkish white to ashy Boxes, slack cooperage, | Amazon rain 
brown, very soft, toys, plywood cores, forest. 
light. Large tree. canoes, rafts. Seed | 
pods source of 
kapok. 
Coconut palm.......| Cocos nucifera.....| — (?) (1) Used locally for food Littoral forest. 
and oil. 
Freij6 (South Amer- | Cordia goeldiana...| 0.4—0. 7 | Yellowish to brown, tex- | Cabinetwork, joinery, | Eastern Amazon 
ican walnut, ture uniform and cooperage, furni- rain forest. 
jenny wood, medium to coarse, soft ture, paneling, sub- 
cordia wood). to moderately hard, stitute for teak in 
good mechanical naval construction, 
properties. airplanes. 
Gongalo alves.......| Astronium fraxini- |\0.8-1.3 | Cherry red to dark Crossties, posts, piling, | Coastal rain forest. 
folium. brownish red, hard, bridge timbers and 
texture fine and uni- other heavy durable 
form, durable. construction, cabinet- 
work, fine furniture, 
veneets. 
Imbatiba...........| Cecropia spp......| 0.4-0.5 | Whitish to pale brown, Trunks for rafts or Amazon varzeas 
texture coarse, soft, buoying heavy logs. and igapoés. 
comparatively strong. Wood for match 
Quickly growing, sticks, pulp, box- 
short-lived tree. boards, charcoal 
_ powder, kindling. 
Bark for oakum and 
cordage. Latex for 
medicines. 
Imbuia (Brazilian Phoebe porosa.....| 0. 7-0. 8 | Yellowish or olive to High-grade flooring, Parand pine forest. 
walnut). chocolate brown, plain furniture, fixtures, 
or figured, medium carving, veneer, 
luster, moderately paneling, interior 
hard, fine texture, trim. 
good mechanical prop- 
erties, durable. 
Tpé........+.++----| DTabebuia, Tecoma, | 0. 7-1. 2 | Olive brown to blackish, | General construction, Coastal rain forest 
and Paratecoma hard, tough, and crossties, bridges, and wooded 
spp- strong, texture fine to carpentry, cabinet- savanna. 
medium and uniform, work, turnery, 
resistant to wear, vehicles. 
insects, and decay. 
Itatiba.............| Mezilaurus itauba..| 0. 7-1.0 | Brownish yellow with Boats, durable con- | Amazon rain forest. 
oily appearance, tex- struction, furniture, 
ture fine to coarse, shipbuilding, cross- 
hard, durable, similar ties. | 
to teak. 
Jacaranda .:.-2->>> Dalbergia nigra, 0. 8-1. 2 | Varicolored, figured, Furniture, carving, Coastal and Ama- 
D. sprucena 
(rosewood), 
D. cearensis 
(kingwood), 
D. variabilis 
(tulipwood), 
and Machaer- 
ium spp- 
See footnote at end of table. 
scented, hard, fine and 
uniform texture. 
FORESTS AND FOREST INDUSTRIES OF BRAZIL 
turnery, interior 
trim, veneer. 
zon rain forests. 
