EVEUSS

eveuss TIMBER USES

The exotic species eveuss can be used in industrial and heavy work, but also in exterior joinery.

The following product can be made:

Outdoor equipment - Recreation

• Exterior staircases and guard railing
• Single-level terraces and pool areas
• Elevated terraces, balconies and corridors

Industrial usage and heavy work

• Structures and bridges in contact with soil or freshwater
• Acoustic barriers in urban areas along railroads and highways
• Sleepers and dunnage
• Industrial floors and heavy framework
• Vehicle, wagon and container bottom (or floor)

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DISTRIBUTION AREA OF eveuss

The exotic species eveuss is found in a vast distribution area in Africa, from the Atlantic coast of West Africa (Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria), through Central Africa (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, DRC, Angola), to East Africa (Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda)

ECOLOGY and Biology of eveuss

The exotic species eveuss is a deciduous species found in dense evergreen and semi-deciduous rainforests. Seeds are dispersed mainly by elephants (zoochory) almost year round.

DESCRIPTION OF eveuss TIMBER

• Color: brown
• Sapwood: not clearly demarcated
• Texture: fine
• Grain: straight or interlocked
• Interlocked grain: marked

eveuss: PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES

See the Tropix sheet of eveuss (CIRAD).

eveuss: NATURAL DURABILITY AND TREATABILITY

• Funghi: class 1 - very durable
• Dry wood borers: heartwood durable but sapwood not clrearly demarcated
• Termites : class D - durable
• Treatability: class 3 - poorly permeable
• Use class ensured by natural durability: class 4 - in ground or fresh water
• Species covering the use class 5: No

See the Tropix sheet of eveuss (CIRAD).

PROCESSING OF eveuss TIMBER

See the Tropix sheet of eveuss (CIRAD)

Sources :

• CIRAD
• ATIBT
• Q. Meunier, C. Moumbogou, J.-L. Doucet, 2015, Les arbres utiles du Gabon