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Vegetation

Arboreals Species

Cedro Misionero:
Is one of the main species of the subtropical formation of Misiones, reach 30 m of height, Tree of leady goblet and the white flowers. gives a light wood or half heavy of kind fragance, is easy of drive, adquire very good shine.
Utility: furniture, decorative coating, musicals instruments, in the navy industry for the building of ships casks.
excelent for the building of doors frames, windows, bodies.
Cedro Misionero:
Lapacho:
Big and wonderful tree of 30 m of height, is one of the most beauty tree of the jungle, because flowered at the end of the winter, becomes his goblet in a greatest bouquet. gradually goes diffused this cultive, as ornamental, in great part of Argentina the Template-warm weather.
Give hard and heavy wood, Exist 3 tipes of lapacho: Crespo, white, and black.
Lapacho
The Timbó:
Is one of the giants of the jungle, give a light wood, is used in forniture of quality, for manufacture doors and windows. have good durability for exteriors, by these is used for make boxes of beehives, floor of shiped, canoes, grooves, etc.
Timbo
Guatambú:
Give wood of good quality, of variated aplications: fines Furniture, instruments of engineering, etc. Exist two tipes of Guatambu: White and Yellow
Guatambu
Pine Parana; or Araucaria Angustifolia or Pine Misionero:
Is an imponent colose of the jungle of Misiones and one of the most beauty, specially when it reach your plenty mature and develope your great goblet. It reach 40 m of height, with a maximus circunference of 1,50 m. Is a long life specie, with exemplaries that pass the 300 year of age. the wood is light and soft, becouse of that it constituted in one of the more important trees, for the wood industry and celulose paste.
Today the greater number of exemplaries it developed in the northeast of the province. Was declarated Natural monument and Provincial.
Pine Parana
Peteribí:
Valuable specie of the jungle of Misiones. Gives a wood of high value decorative, very good for manufacture of furniture of quality, coating, decorations of interiors. Is one of the Argentine woods more apreciate for furniture factory, because is easy of work, clean, brush, polish. It used for build, chairs, common wodd and also is used for sculptures. Also exist the Peteribi white, but is for jobs more rustics.
Peteribi
Palm tree:
This plants develops in the north of Province. adjacent to the Iguazu River. From this extracted the delicious heart of garden plants, called Palmettos in the commerce, and so solicited by the goods gourmets. Lamentably the harvest of each palmetto implicates the dead of the palm tree. This specie is the unique in the country, and today is object of protection.
Palm tree
Urunday:
Small tree, it locates in the south of Misiones, is thick, special for dormants, pulley, wood factory, heavy, resistent, overall if it uses vertically, is not putrid. has found in the jesuitics ruins, and in bridges built by them, three centuries ago, frames, columns and pillars in perfect state of conservation. In Brazil is called iron stick
Ybira-Pita:
Trees of 30 m of height, of follage very ellegant, in the Autumn it covers of colour yellow golden and becomes in the most beauty ornament of the jungle. Produces hard and heavy wood, contain tannin, excelent for cure fines leader. The leafs, fruits and roots, are used in the popular medicine.
Laurel White or Canela Guaica:
This is special for make firewood and very good wood of fireplace.
laurel White
Cedro Maco o Cancharana:
corpulent Tree, of wood ligth for cabinetwork, your peel is used for cure leader.
Incence:
Tree corpulent, high, of heavy wood for cabinetwork, civils constructions, dormant, resin agreeable, etc,.
Laurel Black or Canela Fétida:
Tree thick, wood of law, the peel is used for cure fine leaders and the sawdust binges of violet.
Laurel Black
Pink stick:
Tree enough thick, of hard wood, precious for furniture.
Anchico:
Beautiful tree, your measure is between 20 to 30 m of heigth. Your wood is hard and heavy. Offers the best firewood of Misiones, because produces much heat and small smoke. also gives tannin for the cure of leader.