Cavanillesia platanifolia

Cavanillesia platanifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Subfamily: Bombacoideae
Genus: Cavanillesia
Species: C. platanifolia
Binomial name
Cavanillesia platanifolia
Synonyms[3]
  • Pourretia platanifolia Humb. & Bonpl.[2]

Cavanillesia platanifolia, known as pijio, bongo, pretino, petrino, cuipo, hameli or hamelí in Spanish[2][1] or macondo,[4] is a flowering plant species in the Malvaceae family.[2] It grows in lowland rainforests in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.[2][1]

Cuipo wood is extremely soft and may have commercial applications. It is unknown whether an average sample of Balsa or this wood would be softer. 

Wiepking, C. A.; Doyle, D. V. (November 1955). "Strength and related properties of Balsa and Quipo woods". UISDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory: 27–28. Report No. 1511. The record softness of 22 lbf is often falsely ascribed to quipo, but all such reports appear to be a misreading of figures 15 and 16 from this primary source, which makes clear that measurement is of balsa, and the softest quipo measured was 46 lbf tangential, 38 lbf radial.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Mitré, M. (1998). "Cavanillesia platanifolia". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012.2. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Cavanillesia platanifolia (Humb. & Bonpl.) Kunth". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  3. ↑ "The Plant List: A Working List of all Plant Species".
  4. ↑ Peixoto, Aristeu Mendes; de Toledo, Francisco Ferraz (1995). Enciclopédia Agrícola Brasileira: I-M Vol. 4. EdUSP. pp. 346–. ISBN 978-85-314-0719-2. Retrieved 23 March 2013.


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