Sipo
Entandrophragma utile
Red brown wood with mottled shades and irregular grain. Even colour.
Origin: Cameroon and Congo
Possible end-uses: Sliced veneers, furniture, interior and exterior joinery, shipbuilding (Download the table of application for African species)
Marketing: Logs and Sawnwood
Physical and mechanical properties: the wood is soft, elastic and moderately nervous. Low shock-resistance
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Kosipo
Entandrophragma Candollei
The wood is red brown with purplish shades and darkens when exposed to light. The texture is coarse with slight interlocked grain. The aspect resembles Sapele.
Origin: Cameroon
Possible end-uses: plywood, interior and exterior joinery, sliced and peeled veneers, furniture
Marketing: Sawnwood
Physical and mechanical properties: Fine texture, straight grain as a rule, semi-hard, moderately nervous, rather elastic
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Movingui
Distemonanthus Benthamianus
Lemon yellow to yellowish brown wood with clearly demarcated sapwood, fine texture and slightly interlocked grain.
Origin: Gabon and Cameroon
Possible end-uses: interior and exterior joinery, stairs, flooring, cabinet-making
Marketing: Sawnwood
Physical and mechanical properties: the wood is semi-hard, moderately nervous and elastic with excellent shock-resistance.
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Agba
Agba
Gossweilerodendron balsamiferum
Yellow brown to light brown wood. Not clearly demarcated sapwood, medium texture. Light peppery odeur. Also called Tola.
Origin: Gabon
Possible end-uses: Veneer and Plywood, glued laminated, exterior joinery, light carpentry
Marketing: Sawn timber
Physical and mechanical properties: The wood is quite light, with low shrinkage and stable in use
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Azobé
Azobé
Lophira alata
Dark red to purple brown wood. Intermediary zone between the sapwood and perfect wood (duramen). White deposits in the pores.
Origin: Cameroon
Possible end-uses: Hydraulic works (in freshwater and in a maritime environment), sleepers, bridges, heavy carpentry, wood frame construction
Marketing: Logs
Physical and mechanical properties: Very heavy and hard wood with excellent resistance
