LIMBA

Limba TIMBER USES

The tropical wood  limba is an interior wood, which was widely exploited and exported in the 1970s. It is mainly used for interior joinery in the form of panels.

It can be used for the following purposes:

Structures and panels

• Lightweight structures
• Glued laminated timber
• Plywood, inside face and outside face
• Plywood, inner layers
• Sliced veneer

Carpentry and interior fittings

• Interior staircases
• Doors and door frames
• Moulding
• Interior panelling and cladding
• Layout and furnishings

Miscellaneous uses

• Turnery, cutlery and brushmaking
• Packing and crating

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DISTRIBUTION AREA OF limba

The exotic species limba is found in the tropical regions of Africa. Its distribution area extends from West Africa (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin, Ghana, Nigeria) to Central Africa (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Central African Republic, Congo, western part of the DRC). 

ECOLOGY and biology OF limba

The tropical species  limba is a deciduous species that grows in dense semi-deciduous secondary rainforests. Its seeds are dispersed by the wind.

DESCRIPTION OF limba TIMBER

• Color: light yellow
• Sapwood: not demarcated
• Texture: medium
• Grain: straight or interlocked
• Interlocked grain: slight

limba : PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES

Read the Tropix sheet of limba (CIRAD).

limba : NATURAL DURABILITY AND TREATABILITY

• Funghi: class 4 - poorly durable
• Dry wood borers: susceptible - sapwood not or slightly demarcated (risk in all the wood)
• Termites : class S - susceptible
• Treatability: class 2 - moderately permeable
• Use class ensured by natural durability: class 1 - inside (no dampness)
• Species covering the use class 5: No

See the Tropix sheet (CIRAD).

PROCESSING OF awoura TIMBER

See the Tropix sheet (CIRAD).

Sources :

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