Wood specie: Mandioqueira

Botanical name: Qualea
Growth area: Brazil, Amazone area and the Guyanas

Botanical name:
Qualea

Growth area:
Brazil, Amazone area and the Guyanas

Quality:
FAS

Colour of heartwood:
The heartwood is light grey, yellowish light beige to brown / red brown in colour with light lines of the parenchyma tissue around the vessels.

Colour of sapwood:
The sapwood is sometimes easy, sometimes less easy to discern from the heartwood and has a pale yellow to yellowish colour, sometimes to light brown.

Mass density:
(650-) 700- 800(-860) kg/m³ at 12% humidity, fresh 1140-1,200 kg/m³

Grain:
Straight-grained, or irregular or cross-grain

Fissure:
Hair fissure sometimes occurs during the drying process

Warping:
The wood tends towards light warping during the drying process

Mould and insects:
Mould - soil contact 3v. Variable due to the large number of species. Qualea paraensis Ducke -above soil level 1. Termites G. Powder-post beetles D

Durability grade:
1/2

Gluing:
Good

Machining:
Medium easy to saw, medium to excellent to plane, shave, sand and turn. Tear-out may occur in cross-grained wood. Some species result in a woolly surface. Some species contain a little grit, which has a blunting effect on the cutting tools.

Dekker range:
Garden wood rails 45 x 68 mm

Certification:
Dekker Hout exclusively imports FSC-certified Mandioqueira from its own concessions in South America.

General applications:
Construction timber under roof, furniture, interior panelling, parquet floors, panelling, plinths, frames, wood turning, pallets, boxes, plywood, fence planks and train compartment floors.