When it comes to black acid branches or yellow sandalwood, you may also be able to say several kinds, but the real differences and characteristics are not much to know, let's understand the Lu's black sandalwood.
Product name or alias: Bois de rose, black acid branch, large-leaf rosewood.
Family Name: Pterophoridae
Tree traits and origin
The tree, which is about 15 meters high and about 40 centimeters in diameter, is mainly produced in Madagascar and other countries.
Lu's black and yellow sandalwood segment
Wood culture and wood aesthetics
According to the data, the time when Lu's black sandalwood entered China was around 1996, and some domestic enterprises bought it back from Indians and sold it as sandalwood in the domestic market. At that time, some domestic appraisal agencies also mistakenly identified Lu's black sandalwood as sandalwood rosewood, but mahogany furniture manufacturers used this wood to make furniture, and could not reach the effect of rosewood furniture and had doubts about the wooden clock, in order to find out the true situation of the batch of wood, the "Mahogany" national standard drafting unit, through domestic and international related units, confirmed that the source of goods came from Madagascar. The relevant departments of the Malagasy government, with the attitude of the person in charge, issued an article explaining that the timber exported by the country to China and other countries was Lu's black sandalwood dalbergia louvelii R. Viguier, and provided all the information of Lu's black sandalwood to the Chinese forestry research department, and the five-year-long Lu's black sandalwood counterfeit sandalwood rosewood storm finally subsided. However, the market still refers to Lu's black sandalwood as large-leaf rosewood. It may be due to the fact that the color, structure and density of Lu's black sandalwood are indeed very similar to sandalwood rosewood, or it may be due to commercial hype.
Lu's black sandalwood blocks
It is worth noting that madagascar has a kind of wood. Called Coastal Sandalwood dalbergia Maritime R. Viguier, he and Lu's black sandalwood belong to the same commercial material name, similar appearance, but the wood performance is a little worse than Lu's black sandalwood. So some lumber merchants mixed the two kinds of wood together and sold them. This should be particularly noticed by mahogany furniture manufacturers when feeding.
Lu's black sandalwood longitudinal cut surface pattern
Macro characteristics of wood
The difference between the heart sapwood is obvious, the new cut of the heart material is orange-red, and it turns dark purple or black purple for a long time, and there are common dark and light stripes. Loose hole material. The axial thin walls are organized into regular concentric bands. The ripples are not obvious, the sour aroma is weak, the texture is staggered, the structure is fine and uniform, and it is. There are innings that do not curl.
Lu's black sandalwood cross-section (✘10)
Microscopic characteristics of wood
Single tube holes and a few 2 to 3 diameter row double tube holes and tube hole clusters. Catheter molecules, wood fibers, axial thin-walled tissue, wood rays are all stacked. The catheter molecules are single perforated, and the intertube striae pores are interstitial. The banded axial parenchymal tissue is mostly 1 to 2 cells wide, with chamber-containing crystal cells, and containing more than 10 prismatic crystals. Single-row rays occasionally have pairs of columns, mostly 7 to 9 cells in height, and the ray tissue is homomorphic in a single column.
Lu's black sandalwood cross-section (✘20)
Lu's black sandalwood string cut surface (✘50)
Material properties and uses
The dry gas density is 0.95g/cm³, the hardness is large, the strength is high, the processing is slightly difficult, and the paint performance is good. Suitable for thrones, official hat chairs, top box cabinets, sofas, dining tables, desks, Bogu shelves and other high-grade imitation classical craft furniture, but also can be made of pen holders, calligraphy and painting tubes, bracelets and other high-grade crafts.
Lu's black sandalwood drawer carton
I hope that the above introduction can provide you with help in the separation of wood, and will not be routined when choosing enough mahogany furniture.