Taxi, Brazilian Olive Hardwood Flooring

Technical species specifications for Taxi, Brazilian Olive from StoneWood Outlet.

  • Taxi, Brazilian Olive Flooring
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  • Scientific Name, Other Names: Tachigali myrmecophila, Taxi, Brazilian Oliver, Taxi Pitomba, Taxi Preto da Mata
  • Description: Brazililan olive, also known as Taxi features creamy yellow tones intermingled with light browns and russets. This lustrous flooring is a great mixture of eye-catcing light reflectivity and deep, rich coloration. Like many other Brazilian woods, Brazilian Olive is quite hard and durable despite its delicate appearance. Brazilian Olive has a Janka hardness rating of 1,600, giving it a notably greater hardness than Red Oak with its rating of 1,290. Brazilian Olive is particularly well-suited for a large area with many light sources to set it off, making the area appear even larger and more luminous.
  • Janka Hardness: 1,600 pounds
  • Strength (MOR): 18,800 psi
  • Stiffness (MOE): 1,880 1000 psi
  • Density (KG/m3): 570
  • Tangential Shrinkage: 7.5 %
  • Radial Shrinkage: 5.2 %
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