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Amendoim
Scientific Name:

Pterogyne nitens
Other Names and Species:

Guiaro
Ibiraro
Pau Fava
Vivaro
Origin:

Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
Appearance:

The sapwood of amendoim is yellow-brown, while the heartwood is more reddish brown (similar to Mahogany). The grain is roey in nature. The wood has a lustrous appearance, and is of a medium texture.
Properties:

Amendoim is very hard and durable, with a bending strength much greater than that of Mahogany. It has moderate resistance to decay when not chemically treated. The wood remains smooth under friction and is reported to be odorless. Amendoim is a dimensionally stable wood flooring species.
Janka Hardness: 1912

As a flooring option, amendoim’s hardness is roughly twice that of black walnut or teak, nearly fifty percent harder than red oak, forty percent harder than white oak, thirty percent harder than hard maple, almost identical to jarrah, and approaches santos mahogany’s ranking of 2200.
Workability:

Amendoim has good machining qualities, and it sands well.
Principal Uses:

Amendoim’s uses include hard wood flooring, cabinetry, furniture, and interior construction.

Cordia dodecandra of the family Boraginaceae, the borage family

Common variant name spellings include ziricote and, far less frequently, siricote. Google gives about 40,000 hits for each of zircote and ziricote but only a few hundred for siricote

A hard, dark greenish/grayish wood from Central America, mostly from Mexico, this wood frequently has one of the most wildly swirly and billowy grain patterns of any wood. The fairly ugly sapwood is sharply demarcated from the heartwood. Zircote is related to bocote and some dealers confuse the two, although I have never figured out how since the two really don’t look alike at all.