![]() This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds Special Uses When thoroughly dry, the wood is used as firewood or charcoal. It is used for veneer, as plywood for interior use, in rustic furniture, for rough boxes and crates, as handles for tools, as soles for sandals, for match sticks and toothpicks, to build cabinets, to make decorative articles. The wood takes all stains and polishes well and holds nails firmly without splitting. It works easily with all types of tools and machines saws cleanly planes to a smooth finish drills cleanly with some tearing at the exit side and turns readily on the lathe. The wood is soft, light in weight, firm, tough, not very durable in contact with the soil. The texture is fine to medium the grain fairly straight lustre is moderate and there is no distinctive taste or odour. Both the heartwood and sapwood are often discoloured to a gray by sap-staining fungi. The heartwood is white, yellowish, or light brown it is not differentiated from the sapwood. The aromatic resin is a natural insect repellent, and no pests or diseases are reported for this species. Used by the Maya as an incense since ancient times, it is still concentrated, dried and used in modern South America as incense in churches. It is also used as a glue for mending broken china and glass. ![]() It is painted on canoes to preserve the wood from insects etc. ![]() It is used in varnishes and as a substitute for gum arabic (from Acacia spp.). Other Uses The bark yields a balsam resin known as American elemi, cachibok or gomart. Agroforestry Uses: Trees are used as living fence to delimit pastures, using stakes 1 - 3 metres long, 10 - 15cm thick, and spaced 3 metres or more apart. Seaside, Street tree, Massed as an accent, Xerophytic. Adhesive Biomass Charcoal Fencing Fuel Furniture Gum Incense Preservative Repellent Resin Varnish Wood
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