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Garlic wood
Garlic wood (Gallesia scorododendrum)

Family: Phytolaccaceae

Common names: Garlic wood, Guararema, Ibirarema, Pau d'alho

Distributed in: Brazil, Peru (Latin America)

Common uses: Light construction

Colors: the heart isRed, White to creamand the sapwoodPink, Same as heartwood., the textureCoarse

Natural durability: Straight, Stripe (figure)

Tree Identification: Bole/stem form is unknown

Comments: General finishing qualities are rated as poor

Cutting Resistance: Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult to saw

Resistance to Impregnation: Resistant sapwood

Response to hand tools: Easy to machine



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Item Green Dry Metric
Specific Gravity
Density 512 kg/m3
Bending Strength 542 849 kg/cm2
Crushing Strength 275 449 kg/cm2
Hardness 451 kg
Impact Strength cm
Shearing Strength 109 kg/cm2
Stiffness 95 110 1000 kg/cm2
Tangential Shrinkage 9 %
Radial Shrinkage 3 %
Weight 496 400 kg/m3
Maximum Load cm-kg/cm3
Toughness cm-kg
Static Bending kg/cm2
Item Green Dry English
Bending Strength 7711 12078 psi
Density 32 lbs/ft3
Hardness 995 lbs
Maximum Crushing Strength 3916 6397 psi
Shearing Strength 1560 psi
Stiffness 1358 1568 1000 psi
Weight 31 25 lbs/ft3
Radial Shrinkage 3 %
Tangential Shrinkage 9 %
Volumetric Shrinkage 13 %

Max. crushing strength = medium
Shrinkage, Tangential = fairly large
Shrinkage, Radial = small
Modulus of Elasticity (stiffness) = low
Bending strength (MOR) = medium
Bending strength (MOR) = low
Shrinkage, Volumetric = fairly large
Shearing strength (parallel to grain) = low
Hardness (side grain) = soft
Density (dry weight) = 31-37 lbs/cu. ft.

Record, S.J., Mell, C.D.,1924,Timbers of Tropical America,Yale Univ. PressSao Paulo - Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnologicas,1956,Tabelas de Resultados obtidos para Madeiras Nacionais,Inst. Pesq. Tec. Sao Paulo, Brazil Bol., No.31(2nd Ed.)Takahashi, A.,1975,Compilation of data on the Mechanical Properties of Foreign Woods (Part 2,Central and South America,Shimane University, Japan, Research Report on Foreign Wood No.4
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