COLOUR REFERENCE / ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY
MOKUREI STUDIO / SPECIMEN 034
Ziricote
Cordia dodecandra
Ink-dark webbing and dramatic landscape-like patterns on a grey-brown ground.
- Botanical family
- Boraginaceae
- Average dry density
- 805 kg/m³ (≈12% MC)
- Janka hardness
- 1,970 lbf
- Native distribution
- Mexico and Central America
- Grain & texture
- Fine, sometimes straight, occasionally interlocked
Material character
A singular combination of subtle colour and irregular black figure.
Notable applications
Fine guitars, furniture veneer, jewellery boxes and knife handles.
Of particular interest
Its distinctive grain is frequently described as spider-web or landscape figure.
Workshop note
Particularly wide dark-and-light transitions can reveal significant sapwood contrast.
Wood identification is provided by the Mokurei Studio collection, not independently laboratory-verified. Technical figures are reference averages, not measurements of the photographed piece; they vary with provenance and moisture.