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Ceiba
Ceiba (Ceiba occidentalis)

Family: Bombacaceae

Common names: Ceiba, Cotton tree, Fromager, Fuma, Honduras cottonwood, Kumaka, Silk cotton, Silk cotton tree

Distributed in: Guyana, Jamaica (Latin America, Oceania and S.E. Asia)

Common uses: Boxes and crates, Canoes, Coffins, Cooperages, Model airplanes, Plywood, Toys

Tree size: Tree height is 0-10 m

Colors: the heart isYellow, Yellow to golden-yellow to orangeand the sapwoodBrown, Yellow.The grain isOther figure, the textureCoarseand the lusterMedium

Natural durability: Perishable, Sapwood is susceptible to wood staining fungal attack

Tree Identification: Bole/stem form is cylindrical

Comments: General finishing qualities are rated as poor

Response to hand tools: Easy to machine

Veneering qualities: No drying degrade. Dries flat without splitting



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Item Green Dry Metric
Specific Gravity
Density 384 kg/m3
Bending Strength kg/cm2
Crushing Strength kg/cm2
Hardness kg
Impact Strength cm
Shearing Strength kg/cm2
Stiffness 1000 kg/cm2
Tangential Shrinkage %
Radial Shrinkage %
Weight kg/m3
Maximum Load cm-kg/cm3
Toughness cm-kg
Static Bending kg/cm2
Item Green Dry English
Density 24 lbs/ft3
Weight 24 20 lbs/ft3

Density (dry weight) = 23-30 lbs/cu. ft.
Density (dry weight) = 15-22 lbs/cu. ft.
Density (dry weight) = 31-37 lbs/cu. ft.

Brown, W.H.,1978,Timbers of the World, No. 2 South America,TRADA, Red Booklet SeriesFanshawe, D.B.,1954,Forest Products of British Guiana Part 1 Principal Timbers,Forest Department British Guiana Forestry Bulletin (New Series 2nd,Edition,No.1I.U.F.R.O.,1973,Veneer Species of the World,Assembled at F.P.L. Madison on behalf of I.U.F.R.O. Working Party on,Slicing and Veneer CuttingSwabey, C.,1941,The Principal Timbers of Jamaica,Department of Science and Agriculture Jamaica Bulletin No.29
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