Kosipo

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Sawn timber
Kosipo

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.

  • Resistance to fungi poor weak medium good
  • Resistance to dry wood insect borers poor weak medium good
  • Resistance to termites poor weak medium good
  • Impregnability poor weak medium good
  • Stability poor weak medium good

 

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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