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Cedrela angustifolia Moc. & Sessé ex DC.

American Cedar

Other names

International recognized trade name (ATIBT) Cedro
Deutsch Tucumán Zedrele
English American Cedar
Français Cédrele
Italiano Tucumán Zedrele
Suomi Tucumán Zedrele
Norsk Tucumán Zedrele
Čeština Tucumán Zedrele
Español Tucumán Zedrele
Svenska Tucumán Zedrele
Polski Tucumán Zedrele
Український Tucumán Zedrele
Român Tucumán Zedrele
Русский Tucumán Zedrele
Български Tucumán Zedrele
EESTI Tucumán Zedrele
日本語 Tucumán Zedrele
Other names cedro de Tucumán, cedro bayo, cedro coya, and cedro del cerro

Further information

COL
Wikipedia
FSC

Origin

Geographic Regions South America
States and Territories Eswatini [Swaziland] [I]; Jamaica; Virgin Isl. (St. John, Tortola); Nicaragua; Java [I]; St. Eustatius; Montserrat; Cayman Isl.; peninsular Malaysia [I]; tropical Africa [I]; Honduras; Guinea [I]; Curaçao; India [I]; Argentina (Misiones, Salta); New Caledonia [I]; Hispaniola; São Tomé [I]; Antigua; Barbados; Colombia (Amazonas, Antioquia, Bolívar, Caldas, Caquetá, Chocó, Cundinamarca, Huila, Magdalena, Meta, Nariño, Quindío, Risaralda, San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina, Santander, Tolima, Valle); Cuba; SE-Brazil (Espirito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo); Mozambique [I]; Ecuador; Costa Rica; NE-Brazil (Bahia, Ceara); Paraguay (Canindeyu, Central, Cordillera, Paraguari); French Guiana; Fiji [I]; Grenada; China [I] (Guangdong [I]); Taiwan [I]; South Africa [I]; El Salvador; Panama; Bahamas; Peru; Belize; Sri Lanka [I]; N-Brazil (Amapa, Pará, Amazonas, Acre); Mexico (Aguascalientes, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan, Zacatecas); Bolivia (Beni, Cochabamba, La Paz, Pando, Santa Cruz, Tarija); Philippines [I]; WC-Brazil (Mato Grosso, Goiás, Brasilia Distrito Federal); Trinidad; Surinam; Bangladesh [I]; Guatemala; Puerto Rico; Guyana; Cameroon [I]; Dominica; Venezuela (Aragua, Barinas, Bolívar, Carabobo, Cojedes, Delta Amacuro, Venezuela Distrito Federal, Falcon, Merida, Miranda, Monagas, Tachira, Yaracuy, Zulia); Guadeloupe; Saint Lucia
[I] = Introduced

Botany

Reich Plantae
Tribe Tracheophyta
Gymnosperm Angiosperm
Class Magnoliopsida
Order Sapindales
Family Meliaceae
Genus Cedrela
Species angustifolia
Author citation Moc. & Sessé ex DC.
Scientific name Cedrela angustifolia Moc. & Sessé ex DC.

Habitus

Wood type Hardwood
Growth habit Baum

Natural durability
(according to EN 350)

Mushrooms field DC 2
Common furniture beetle (Anobium) n/a
Termites M

Impregnability according to EN 350

Impregnability of heartwood 3-4
Impregnability of the sapwood 1-2
Width of the sapwood s

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

Density, oven dry u =12%, lower limit 450.00 kg/m3
Density, oven dry u =12%, mean value 490.00 kg/m3
Density, oven dry u =12%, upper limit 600.00 kg/m3

Appearances

Wood

American Cedar

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