
Trade Names: | Sup Gum, American Sup Gum. |
Origin: | South America. |
Range: | Primarily in Brazil but also in the northern parts of South America, Venezuela and Guyava. |
Uses: | Furniture, doors, interior fittings, small laminated items; plywood, boxes, crates; veneers for coating panels, decorative veneers. |
Properties: | Wood from the reddish color often with darker veins, sapwood off from white-colored clearly differentiated cream; mostly irregular grain, fine texture. very nervous wood, with a marked tendency to warp. Not very easy to work, often it causes problems for sharpening tools. |