the Botanical name - Hymenaea courbaril.
German, Italian names - Courbaril, English - West Indian locust. A tree from family bean (Leguminosae). Grows in a tropical zone Central and the South America from Mexico to a river basin of Amazon. Population is limited.
Zabolon' serovato-white, rather wide. Mature wood has very beautiful and decorative tone from oranzhevo-brown to violet and darkly - brown. On a cut exits of a time (channels) in the form of small dark points and hyphens are appreciable. There is a special version yatoby - yatoba striped with characteristic drawing.
Wood yatoby heavy, strong, firm and thus rather elastic. It is difficultly processed, but ground and polished almost to mirror shine, used for manufacturing of expensive furniture, figurines, small hand-made articles, in incrustations and in art parquet floors. Wood yatoby is elegantly decorative, that in a combination to practically eternal operational characteristics, allows to use it for creation of exclusive interiors. In expensive furnish it use together with metal that increases natural beauty of a tree. Drying should be spent very slowly to avoid formation of cracks. At polishing on occasion there can be a colouring of a time of wood from almost white to is yellow - the lemon. For prevention of formation of cracks by an obligatory condition drilling of apertures under nails and screws is. Application of varnishes, glues and first coats on a water basis is not recommended.
Volume weight in an air-dry condition: on the average about 840 kg/cubic metres