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Pau rosaPau rosa
Pau rosa (Aniba duckei)

Family: Lauraceae

Common names: Aniba rosewood, Bois de rose, Comino real, Coto, Female rosewood, Louro, Louro rosa, Moena amarilla, Pau rosa, Rosenhout, Silverballi

Distributed in: Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru, Suriname (Central America, Latin America)

Distribution overview: Widely distributed in the rainforest from the interior of French Guiana, along the Guiana shield through Suriname, Venezuela and Colombia to the Peruvian Amazon. In Brazil, it occurs from Amapa westward along both sides of the Amazon River. The areas of highest concentration run from Curu￿na (near Santar￿ to the Peruvian frontier in the south, and from the Trombetas River to Colombia in the north. It is also found around Bel￿and on Maraj￿land.

Common uses: Billiard-cue butts, Decorative plywood, Plywood, Sporting Goods, Turnery

Environment profile: Endangered within most of its growth range (and may soon be Extinct if adverse environmental practices persist)

Tree size: Tree height is 30-40 m

Colors: the heart isYellow, Yellowish greenand the sapwoodWhite to yellow, Yellow.The grain isStraight, the textureMediumand the lusterMedium

Natural durability: Very durable, Very high natural resistance

Odor: Spicy odor

Drying Defects: Slight surface checking, Warping can be expected

Ease of Drying: Moderately Difficult to Difficult

Comments: Often steamed after felling for about sixty to ninety minutes, and is sometimes used in the perfume industry

Blunting Effect: Little

Boring: Fairly easy to very easy

Carving: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Cutting Resistance: Easy to saw

Gluing: Satisfactory gluing properties

Mortising: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Moulding: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Movement in Service: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Planing: Smooth surface

Resistance to Impregnation: Similar to teak

Response to hand tools: Responds well to hand tools

Routing recessing: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Turning: Yields smooth and clean surfaces

Polishing: Very Good to Excellent;

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Item Green Dry Metric
Specific Gravity 0,55 0,56
Density kg/m3
Bending Strength 912 1311 kg/cm2
Crushing Strength 73 76 kg/cm2
Hardness 653 kg
Impact Strength cm
Shearing Strength 126 kg/cm2
Stiffness 149 177 1000 kg/cm2
Tangential Shrinkage 7 %
Radial Shrinkage 5 %
Weight 689 560 kg/m3
Maximum Load 0,7 1,26 cm-kg/cm3
Toughness 198 cm-kg
Static Bending 686 810 kg/cm2
Item Green Dry English
Bending Strength 12985 18649 psi
Crushing Strength 1039 1088 psi
Hardness 1441 lbs
Maximum Crushing Strength 6429 9810 psi
Shearing Strength 1803 psi
Static Bending 9761 11525 psi
Stiffness 2127 2519 1000 psi
Toughness 172 inch-lbs
Work to Maximum Load 10 18 inch-lbs/in3
Specific Gravity 0.55 0.56
Weight 43 35. lbs/ft3
Radial Shrinkage 5 %
Tangential Shrinkage 7 %
Volumetric Shrinkage 12 %

Resists denting and marring
Max. crushing strength = high
Heavy
Bending strength (MOR) = high

Chudnoff, M.,1984,Tropical Timbers of the World,U.S.A. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products,Laboratory, Madison.Kline, M. 1986. Aniba duckei - Pau rosa. In A Guide to Useful Woods of the World, Flynn Jr., J.H., Editor. King Philip Publishing Co., Portlan, Maine. 1994. Page 43.Wangaard, F.F., and A.F. Muschler. 1952. Tropical Woods - Properties and Uses of Tropical Woods, Volume III, No. 98. School of Forestry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.WCMC. 1992. Conservation Status Listing - Trees and Timbers of the World. World Conservation Monitoring Center-Plants Programme, Cambridge, CB3 ODL, United Kingdom.
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