Scientific Name – Humiria balsamifera var balsamifera
Description and Common Uses: The wood has wide-ranging industrial use as furniture, construction, shipping, automotive and music industry. Wood appearance varies from a fawn colour to light brown to reddish brown. It is poorly demarcated from the narrow light brown sapwood. Texture is medium, grain is straight to interlock with medium lustre. Wood has no distinct odour or taste.
- Density at 12% (kg / m3): 1060kg
- Compressive strength: 61.7 MPa
- Bending strength: 129.4 MPa
- Elastic modulus: 17.3 MPa
- Radial Cure: 8.2%
- Tangential Cure: 9.7%
- Volume Cure: 15.7%
- Hardness of the Janka scale: 1610
- Tree height: 26 – 36 m
- Strain diameter: 0.5 – 1 m
