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Wholesale Jatoba Lumber Stock Information
| GRADES: | FAS/SEL |
| CUTS: | Mixed Grain |
| SIZES: | 4/4 x 5, 4/4 x 6, 4/4 x 8, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 8/4 |
| DRYING: | Kiln-Dried (KD) |
| WHOLESALE MINIMUM: | 2,000 board feet and up |
Species Information
BOTANICAL NAME: Hymenaea courbaril
Jatoba is best knon as “Brazilian Cherry” in the hardwood flooring industry. Other uses include handles and other applications where good shock resistance is needed, steam-bent parts, flooring, turnery, furniture and cabinet work, railroad crossties tree-nails, gear cogs, wheel rims, and other specialty items.
| OTHER NAMES: |
Brazilian Cherry |
| ORIGIN: | Brazil, Peru |
| APPEARANCE: | Heartwood is salmon red to orange brown when fresh, becoming russet to reddish brown when seasoned; often marked with dark streaks. Sapwood is usually wide; white, gray, or pinkish. Texture is medium to rather coarse; grain mostly interlocked with a golden luster |
| DENSITY: | Janka scale hardness ranges from 2,350 to 3,290 for dry material |
| WEIGHT: | 52 – 61 lbs. / cu. ft., or approximately 4.3 – 5.1 lbs. per board foot |
| DRYING: | The wood is rated as slightly difficult to air-dry; it seasons at a fast to moderate rate with only slight checking and warp. |
| WORKABILITY: | Jatoba is moderately difficult to saw and machine largely because of its high density, but except in planing it can be machined to a smooth surface. The wood is somewhat difficult to plane because of the interlocked grain. It is easy to glue and finish satisfactorily; steam-bending properties comparable to white oak |
| DURABILITY: | Very resistant to brown-rot and white-rot fungi. Heartwood is also rated very resistant to dry-wood termites; little resistance to marine borers |
| PRESERVATION: | Heartwood is not treatable using open-tank or pressure-vacuum systems. Sapwood, however, is responsive |
| FINISHING: | Finishes well |