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Dalbergia cearensis, radial and cross section. Dalbergia cearensis, with common names Brazilian kingwood, kingwood, Bois de Violette, and violetwood, [3] is a small tree endemic to Brazil. It is native to the states of Bahia, Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, and Piauí, [4] It is the source of kingwood, a classic furniture wood.
Dalbergia is a large genus of small to medium-size trees, shrubs and lianas in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. It was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Dalbergia clade (or tribe): the Dalbergieae .
Kingwood is a classic furniture wood, almost exclusively used for inlays on very fine furniture. It was the most expensive wood in general use for furniture making in the seventeenth century, at which time it was known as princes wood.
But both Dalbergia fructescens and Dalbergia decipularis are named (Brazilian tulipwood). [3] Also Dalbergia cearensis kingwood or violetwood, is named tulipwood and Dalbergia oliveri the burmese rosewood is sometimes called "burma tulipwood". [citation needed]
Cocobolo is yielded by two to four closely related species of the genus Dalbergia, of which the best known is Dalbergia retusa, a fair-sized tree, reported to reach 75–80 ft (23–24 m) in height and 3 ft (0.9 m) in diameter; [1] it probably is the species contributing most of the wood in the trade.
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Dalbergia congestifloria: kingwood Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Dalbergia decipularis: tulipwood Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Dalbergia frutescens: pau rosa Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Dalbergia latifolia: Indian rosewood Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Dalbergia melanoxylon: African blackwood; mpingo Fabaceae (legume family (peas ...
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