Products - Afromosia

Specie Name: AFROMOSIA Botanical / Scientific / Latin name: Pericopsis elata Common / Trade names: SHEDUN, AFRICAN TEAK Origin: West Africa and Central Africa Colour: Yellow-brown darkening on exposure-dark veins Natural durability: Very Durable Characteristics Grain: Straight to occasionally interlocked

Texture: Fine to medium

Silver figure: Fine

Uses: Decorative veneer, furniture, interior and exterior joinery, stairs, house flooring, boat building

Working properties: Easy sawing, slow drying, machining difficulties due to irregular grain, wood bending moderate, good gluing, nailing good (good holding properties), good finishing

Numerical Values

Category Green Dry

Bending Strenght 995 1357 kg/cm2

Crushing Strenght (Perp.) kg/cm2

Max. Crushing Strength 516 695 kg/cm2

Static Bending (FSPL) kg/cm2

Impact Strenght 131 cm2

Stiffness 120 1k kg/cm2

Work to max. Load 1.12 1.19 cm-kg/cm3

Hardness 754 kg

Shearing Strength 152 kg/cm2

Toughness cm-kg

Specific Gravity 0.54 0.63

Weight 721 689 kg/cm3

Density (Air dry) 737 kg/cm3

Radial Shrinkage (G->OD) 3 %

Tangential Shrink. (G->OD) 6 %

Volumetric Shrink. (G->OD) 10 %


TRADECORP GROUP Comments - also known as African Teak. It has a yellow amber colouring with black stripes. This timber is used mainly for flooring but quite often for furniture as well.