Sapelle Sapelli African hardwood logs

Sapelle/ Sapelli
Latin name: swartzia fistuloides/Meliaceae
Vernacular names:Sapelli mahogany, sapele mahogany, West African cedar

Uses
The wood, usually traded as ‘sapelli’, ‘sapele’, ‘aboudikro’ or ‘assié’, is highly valued for flooring, interior joinery, interior trim, panelling, stairs, furniture, cabinet work, musical instruments, carvings, ship building, veneer and plywood. It is suitable for construction, vehicle bodies, toys, novelties, boxes, crates and turnery. The bole is traditionally used for dug-out canoes. Wood that can not be valorized as timber is used as firewood and for charcoal production.