Hymenolobium spp. – Leguminosae Papilionoideae
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
Heartwood light yellowish brown distinct from the pale brown sapwood. It has an accentuated fibrous aspect at the tangential figure, due to prominence of axial parenchyma, fibers and vascular lines. Grain interlocked, texture coarse, luster lacking and with not distinctive odor.
DENSITY
Medium density wood, with density at 12% moisture content of 710 kg/m^3 to H. petraeum and 770 kg/m^3 to H. modestum and green density of 1190 kg/m^3 for both species.
DRYING
Kiln-dries very rapidly, with a slight tendency for medium twisting and springing, when submitted to the drying schedule 4.
WORKABILITY
Easy to work. Regular to good finishing when planed, turned or bored.
DURABILTY
Heartwood is rated as very durable to durable in resistance to white- and brown-rot fungi and is moderately resistant to marine borers. Resistant to dry-wood termites.
PRESERVATION
Sapwood very easy and heartwood difficult to be preserved, with creosote and CCA-A, with pressure-vacuum systems.
USES
Civil construction, furniture and others.
