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Cautivo
Cautivo (Ampelocera hottlei)

Family: Ulmaceae

Common names: Cautivo, Cuerillo, Female bull hoof, Frijolillo, Luin, Zitsmuk

Distributed in: Belize, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama (Central America, Latin America)

Common uses: Brush backs & handles, Railroad ties, Structural work

Product sources: Timber produced by this species is often marketed in a mixture with other species in the Meliaceae family, and also as Pacific maple.

Tree size: Tree height is 30-40 m

Colors: the heart isYellow, Yellow to golden-yellow to orangeand the sapwoodWhite to yellow, Yellow.The grain isOther figure, the textureMediumand the lusterMedium

Natural durability: Resistant to attack from pinworms (ambrosia beetles), Susceptible to wood staining fungal attack

Ease of Drying: Fairly Easy

Tree Identification: Bole/stem form is buttressed

Response to hand tools: Easy to machine

Turning: Fairly Easy to Very Easy


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Item Green Dry Metric
Specific Gravity
Density 576 kg/m3
Bending Strength kg/cm2
Crushing Strength kg/cm2
Hardness kg
Impact Strength cm
Shearing Strength kg/cm2
Stiffness 1000 kg/cm2
Tangential Shrinkage %
Radial Shrinkage 4 %
Weight 560 464 kg/m3
Maximum Load cm-kg/cm3
Toughness cm-kg
Static Bending kg/cm2
Item Green Dry English
Density 36 lbs/ft3
Weight 35 29 lbs/ft3
Radial Shrinkage 4 %
Tangential Shrinkage 7 %

Density (dry weight) = 31-37 lbs/cu. ft.
Shrinkage, Tangential = moderate
Shrinkage, Radial = moderate
Density (dry weight) = 38-45 lbs/cu. ft.

Belize,1946,42 Secondary Hardwood Timbers of British Honduras,British Honduras Forest Department Bulletin,No.1Pennington, T.D., Sarukhan, J.,1968,Manual para la Identificacion de campo de los Principales Arboles,Tropicales de Mexico,Inst. Nac. Inv. For. MexicoRecord, S.J., Hess, R.W.,1943,Timbers of the New World,Yale University Press
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