Cerejeira

Common Name: Cerejeira Scientific Name: Amburana Cearensis Family: Fabaceae

General Characteristics:
Moderately heavy wood; core yellowish-beige or pinkish-beige, uniform, exceptionally showing some dark streaks; alburnum hardly differentiated from the core; grain: from straight to irregular, surface irregularly polished and averagely smooth to the touch, strong smell, peculiar, pleasant, reminding vanilla.

Main Uses: Amburana or cherry wood, because it presents a pleasant aspect and low rentability, mechanical resistance between low and medium, is indicated for the manufacturing of fine furniture, decorative veneers, sculptures, barrel making interior finishing, wainscoting, ect.