- Bulnesia sarmientoi
Taxobox
name = "Bulnesia sarmientoi"
status = LR/cd | status_system = IUCN2.3
image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Palo santo" (B. sarmientoi)
regnum =Plant ae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo =Zygophyllales
familia =Zygophyllaceae
genus = "Bulnesia "
species = "B. sarmientoi"
binomial = "Bulnesia sarmientoi"
binomial_authority = Lorentz ex Griseb."Bulnesia sarmientoi" is a tree that inhabits a part of the
Gran Chaco area inSouth America , around theArgentina -Bolivia -Paraguay border. Its common name is "palo santo" (Spanish, "holy wood"); in some places it is called "ibiocaí", and in the trade also known as "vera" or verawood. It may also appear named as "Paraguay lignum vitae", since it has properties and uses similar to thelignum vitae trees of genus "Guaiacum ".Bulnesia Sarmientoi, known commercially as Argentine Lignum Vitae, is related to but not the same as Bulnesia Arborea, known commercially as Verawood. Neither Bulnesia variety is genetically related to genuine Lignum Vitae, which is of genus Guaiacum.
"Bulnesia sarmientoi"
heartwood is brown, black, and green (varying in color from light olive green to chocolate brown), with streaks. Thesapwood is mostly thin and light yellow. The basicspecific gravity of this wood is between 0.92 and 1.1 g/cm³.Palo santo is employed for
engraving work and for the making of durable wooden posts. From its wood, also, a type of oil known asoil of guaiac (or "guayacol") is produced, to be used as an ingredient forperfume s. Itsresin can be obtained by means of organicsolvent s, and is employed to makevarnish es and dark paints.Palo santo is appreciated for the
skin -healing properties of its essence and also because it provides goodcharcoal and a high quality timber. It ignites easily despite being so dense, and produces a fragrant smoke. Natives of the Chaco region employ the bark to treatstomach problems.Having heard that Palo Santo wood was used to make vessels to ferment wine in Paraguay,
Dogfish Head Brewery imported 20 blocks of it to create the Palo Santo Marron beer. They added the wood blocks to the fermenters during the aging process and ended up with a sweet 12% abv, highly roasty, and malty wood agedbrown ale . As of 2008 a 10,000 gallon palo santo barrel was custom built on premises to expand production.The best known species in the genus is "Bulnesia arborea" : its wood is traded together with that of "Bulnesia sarmientoi".
References
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*" [http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/wood/english/zygbuarb.htm Commercial timbers] ": descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval by H. G. Richter and M. J. Dallwitz
*" [http://www.agr.una.py/cgi-cef/cef.cgi?rm=detalle&ID=158 Catálogo Web de especies forestales] " - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Asunción (in Spanish)
*" [http://www.dogfish.com/brewings/Brewpub_Exclusives/Palo_Santo_Marron_/51/index.htm Dogfish Head's Palo Santo Marron] " - Descriptions, Availability
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