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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.
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.
Dalbergia is a large genus of small to medium-size trees, shrubs and lianas in the pea family, ... Dalbergia cearensis Ducke — Kingwood; Dalbergia chapelieri Baill.
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]
The woods of some other species in the genus Dalbergia are notable—even famous—woods in their own right: African blackwood, cocobolo, kingwood, and Brazilian tulipwood. Some species become canopy trees (up to 30 m high), [ 12 ] and large pieces can occasionally be found in the trade.
Dalbergia: true rosewoods; Dalbergia bariensis: Burmese rosewood Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Dalbergia baronii: Madagascar rosewood; madaga Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Dalbergia congestifloria: kingwood Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Dalbergia decipularis: tulipwood Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Dalbergia frutescens: pau rosa
Jacarandá de Brasil (Dalbergia nigra) Jatobá (Hymenaea courbaril) Kingwood (Dalbergia cearensis) Lacewood. Northern silky oak (Cardwellia sublimis) American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) London plane (Platanus × hispanica) Limba (Terminalia superba) Locust Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) Honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) Mahogany
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.