The wood is pale grey to whitish, straight-grained, relatively soft and knot-free.
It dries without difficulty and is often used in its green or wet state for turnery and bowl carving..
Scientific name is Machaerium villosum.
This is a unique hardwood lumber from the Central to Southern East Coast of Brazil.
It is dense and able to take a fine smooth polish..
Jacaranda is a dense hardwood that makes excellent firewood.
It burns hot and provides great coals, although you'll find a lot of ashes waiting the next day.
Seasoned jacaranda provides a mild fragrance in the fire and burns clean with very little smoke.
Dense, slow-burning wood..
Its density is (min. 450) 530-690 kg/cubic m at 15% mc.
Timber: The wood is moderately hard to hard, light yellowish to light red, heavy, durable, fairly tough and strong, with a specific gravity of 0.7-0.85; it is moderately easy to work and polishes well..
Qualities & Character
Light and easy to work.
It stains, glues and sands easily.
The timber is yellowish-white, moderately heavy, fine textured, attractive, close grained and figured..
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Jacaranda (Jacaranda mimosifolia) — also known as blue Jacaranda or black poui — is a sub-tropical tree prized for its beautiful blooms and foliage
Native to South America, the tree is now planted around the globe due to its vibrant purple flowers
Rich, the common name jacaranda is sometimes used to refer to rosewood, but it's also the common name for some Latin American members of the Bignoniaceae family
Our only native timber producing species belonging to this family is catalpa, but there are a lot of tropical woods in the Bignoniaceae, including primavera
Jacaranda Pardo wood - The heartwood of jacaranda Pardo is between pinkie-brown and violet-brown
It has straight but undulating grain with a coarse texture, and is likely to be fibrous
It is rather similar in appearance to Brazilian rosewood (Dalbergia nigra) , but is less highly figured and sligh
