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Quartersawn surface. Millettia laurentii is a legume tree from Africa and is native to the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. The species is listed as "endangered" in the IUCN Red List, principally due to the destruction of its habitat and over-exploitation for timber. [1] Wenge, a dark ...
Chestnut (Castanea sativa) American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) Coachwood (Ceratopetalum apetalum) Cocobolo (Dalbergia retusa) Corkwood (Leitneria floridana) Cottonwood, popular. Eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides) Swamp cottonwood (Populus heterophylla) Cucumbertree (Magnolia acuminata)
African rosewood. African rosewood is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Millettia laurentii, a legume tree from Africa and native to the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. [1] The tree produces "wenge", a kind of wood. Species in the genus Guibourtia, including.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 August 2024. Varieties of the color brown Brown Common connotations Autumn, Thanksgiving, earth, dirt, chocolate Color coordinates Hex triplet #964B00 sRGB B (r, g, b) (150, 75, 0) HSV (h, s, v) (30°, 100%, 59%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (40, 72, 31°) Source ColorXS ISCC–NBS descriptor Strong brown B ...
Cocobolo is a tropical hardwood of Central American trees [1] belonging to the genus Dalbergia. Only the heartwood of cocobolo is used; it is usually orange or reddish-brown, often with darker irregular traces weaving through the wood. The heartwood changes color after being cut and can be polished to a lustrous, glassy finish.
Tonewood refers to specific wood varieties used for woodwind or acoustic stringed instruments. The word implies that certain species exhibit qualities that enhance acoustic properties of the instruments, but other properties of the wood such as aesthetics and availability have always been considered in the selection of wood for musical ...
Wood of P. officinalis. Pterocarpus is a pantropical tree genus in the Fabaceae family. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade within the Dalbergieae. [2][3] Most species of Pterocarpus yield valuable timber traded as padauk (or padouk), usually pronounced / pəˈduːk ...
Lignum vitae (/ ˈlɪɡnəm ˈvaɪti, - ˈviːtaɪ / [1]), also called guayacan or guaiacum, [2] and in parts of Europe known as Pockholz or pokhout, is a wood from trees of the genus Guaiacum. The trees are indigenous to the Caribbean and the northern coast of South America (e.g., Colombia and Venezuela) and have been an important export crop ...