Exotic Woods Trading

BOTANICAL NAMES

Guarea cedrata – Guarea thompsonii – Guarea laurentii – Trichilia cedrata

 

FAMILY

Member of the Meliaceae family

 

COMMERCIAL NAMES

Bossé – France, Belgium, Germany
Guarea – England

 

NATIVE NAMES

M’Bosse, Bossi – Ghana
Krasse, Muti gbanaye – Ivory Coast
Obobo-nofwa, Akuraten – Nigeria
Ebanghemwa, Tin’bi – Cameroon
Lombe, Bosassa, Diambi – Congo
Divuiti – Gabon

 

SPECIES APPLICATIONS/ USES

EXTERIOR DOORS – WINDOWS – PARQUET – CABINET MAKING – JOINERY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RANGE

The tree grows in the moist forests of tropical West Africa, from the coast of Guinea and Senegal to Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Nigeria.

 

TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Sapwood and heartwood are well-demarcated. The wood, which is almost always perfect, is a uniform color in freshly cut logs, with light rosy brown tones. This shading tends to darken with time, however, or after prolonged exposure to light. The very broad sapwood is whitish pink. The texture is regular, uniform and rather fine, with an irregular cross grain. The wood’s vessels very often exude a resinous substance.

 

DRYING

Kiln-drying presents no significant difficulties.

 

SPECIFIC WEIGHT

The sawn, air-dried wood has a specific weight that ranges from 600-750 kg per cubic meter.

 

PRINCIPAL USES AND PROCESSING TECHNIQUES

The species generally can be worked quite well with all types of carpentry tools. Nails, screws and glue for joints are easy to use and hold well. The furniture industry has made good use of the species’ technological peculiarity of darkening with time or exposure to light, and in fact it is preferred over other similar species, as it has darker and thus warmer tones.