Materials · CR-0006
Spanish Cedar
Cedrela odorata. Aromatic, soft, insect-resistant, increasingly restricted.
- Collection
- Materials
- Origin
- Neotropics, including the Peruvian Amazon
- First observed
- 2024-01-30
- First published
- 2024-04-11
- Last revised
- 2025-12-04
- Status
- In the archive · open to revision
Generative model, no photographic original
What is it made from, where did those materials come from, and what did their production cost?
Light for its strength, with oils that repel insects — the reason it lines cigar rooms, canoes, and drawers.
What does its presence mean, to whom, and how has that meaning changed?
In Loreto a cedar canoe is a household asset with a name and an expected lifespan, closer to a vehicle than to furniture.
What ecological, economic, political, or logistical systems must exist for this to exist?
Listed under CITES Appendix II. Legal supply now requires paperwork that the smallest and most careful producers are least equipped to file.
Provenance and method
Research methods
- Published-source research
- Field observation
- Correspondence
Sources
- 1Published sourceCITES Appendix II listing for Cedrela odorata and accompanying guidance.
- 2Field observationCanoe builders' yard, Loreto, observation and measurement.
Revision history and errata
1 recorded revision
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- First published
- 2024-04-11
- Last revised
- 2025-12-04
- Added the paperwork burden on small producers; earlier text implied the listing alone restricted supply.