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Anaura
Anaura (Licania densiflora)

Family: Chrysobalanaceae

Common names: Anaura, Gris-gris, Gris-gris coumate, Gris-gris rouge, Hierrito, Kauston, Marish, Marishiballi, Sponsoe hoedoe

Distributed in: Guyana, Venezuela (Latin America)

Common uses: Bridge construction, Charcoal, Fuelwood, Marine construction, Piling, Posts

Environment profile: Rare

Tree size: Tree height is 30-40 m

Colors: the heart isYellow, Yellow to golden-yellow to orangeand the sapwoodGreen/Grey, Yellow.The grain isStraight, the textureFineand the lusterLow

Natural durability: Resistant to attack from marine borers, Resistant to attack from termites (Isoptera)

Silica Content: Siliceous

Drying Defects: Slight surface checking, Slight twist/warp

Ease of Drying: Rapidly

Tree Identification: Bole/stem form is not buttressed

Comments: General finishing qualities are rated as good

Blunting Effect: High to severe

Boring: Moderately easy

Carving: Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult

Cutting Resistance: Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult to saw

Mortising: Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult

Moulding: Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult

Movement in Service: Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult

Planing: Planes well, to a good finish

Resistance to Impregnation: Permeable sapwood

Response to hand tools: Difficult to machine

Routing recessing: Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult

Turning: Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult


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Item Green Dry Metric
Specific Gravity
Density 817 kg/m3
Bending Strength 1469 2058 kg/cm2
Crushing Strength 705 955 kg/cm2
Hardness kg
Impact Strength cm
Shearing Strength kg/cm2
Stiffness 181 211 1000 kg/cm2
Tangential Shrinkage %
Radial Shrinkage 6 %
Weight 801 801 kg/m3
Maximum Load cm-kg/cm3
Toughness cm-kg
Static Bending kg/cm2
Item Green Dry English
Bending Strength 20907 29271 psi
Density 51 lbs/ft3
Maximum Crushing Strength 10035 13590 psi
Stiffness 2578 3011 1000 psi
Weight 50 50 lbs/ft3
Radial Shrinkage 6 %
Tangential Shrinkage 10 %

Density (dry weight) = 61 - 67 lbs/cu. ft.
Density (dry weight) = 53 - 60 lbs/cu. ft.
Density (dry weight) = 67-75 lbs/cu. ft.
Shrinkage, Tangential = large
Shrinkage, Radial = large
Modulus of Elasticity (stiffness) = very high
Max. crushing strength = very high
Bending strength (MOR) = very high

Amos, G.L.,1951,Some siliceous timbers of British Guiana,Caribbean Forester (3; 4) 133-7, 139-40.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.1Longwood, F.R.,1962,Commercial Timbers of the Caribbean,U.S.A. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Handbook,No.207Takahashi, 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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