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Acuasia
Acuasia (Quassia amara)

Family: Simaroubaceae

Common names: Acuasia, Bitterholz, Bitterwood, Bois amer, Bois cajan, Bois de frene, Coachi, Cruceto morado, Cruseta, Cuasia, Cuasisa de Jamaica, Echtes quassiaholz, Fliegenholz, Guabo, Guavito, Guavito amargo, Guina, Hombre grande, Kabodan, Kwassi, Kwassi bita, Kwassie hout, Lena amarga, Lignum quassiae verum, Padilla, Palo Isidoro, Pau de Surinam, Pensilero, Puesilde, Quashi, Quasi, Quasia, Quassia, Quina de cayenne, Quinquina de cayenne, Surinam quassia, Tinco

Distributed in: Guyana, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago (Central America, Latin America, Oceania and S.E. Asia)

Common uses: Chemical derivatives, Food containers

Tree size: Tree height is 20-30 m

Colors: the heart isYellow, Yellow to golden-yellow to orangeand the sapwoodWhite, White to yellow.The grain isStraight, the textureFine and the lusterLustrous

Natural durability: Durable

Drying Defects: Internal Honeycombing Possible, Ring Shakes

Ease of Drying: Thick Stock Requires Care

Tree Identification: Bole/stem form is not buttressed

Comments: General finishing qualities are rated as good

Blunting Effect: High to severe

Boring: Fairly easy to very easy

Carving: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Cutting Resistance: Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult to saw

Gluing: Very Good to Excellent Results

Mortising: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Moulding: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Movement in Service: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Nailing: Pre-Boring Recommended, Very Good to Excellent

Planing: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Resistance to Abrasion: High

Resistance to Impregnation: Resistant sapwood

Response to hand tools: Easy to machine

Routing recessing: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Sanding: Very Good to Excellent Results

Steam bending: Very Good to Excellent Results

Screwing: Pre-boring recommended, Very Good to Excellent Results; Turning: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Polishing: Surface Preparation; Staining: Surface Preparation;

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Item Green Dry Metric
Specific Gravity
Density 512 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 %
Weight kg/m3
Maximum Load cm-kg/cm3
Toughness cm-kg
Static Bending kg/cm2
Item Green Dry English
Density 32 lbs/ft3
Weight 31 25 lbs/ft3

Density (dry weight) = 31-37 lbs/cu. ft.

Fanshawe, D.B.,1954,Forest Products of British Guiana Part 1 Principal Timbers,Forest Department British Guiana Forestry Bulletin (New Series 2nd,Edition,No.1Marshall, R.C.,1934,Trees of Trinidad and Tobago,Government Printer Port of Spain TrinidadRecord, S.J., Hess, R.W.,1943,Timbers of the New World,Yale University PressRecord, S.J., Mell, C.D.,1924,Timbers of Tropical America,Yale Univ. PressWood, B., Calnan, D.,1976,Toxic Woods,British Journal of Dermat 94 Suppl. 13
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