Dalbergia louvelii is produced in the east of Madagascar, the first island nation in Africa and the fourth largest in the world, from Maruantella in the north to the port of Madagascar in the south.
Distribution of Lu's black sandalwood
Lu's black sandalwood heartwood is purple-red, which becomes purple-black after drying. The texture is delicate and uniform, and the wood has a beautiful polishing effect. It's heavy and difficult. When the moisture content of wood is 12%, the density is 0.8-0.9g/m. The shrinkage rate from raw blank to drying is very low, and the ratio from radial drying to radial drying is 3.4-4.6% and tangential 5.8-7.6%, respectively.
The color of Lu's black sandalwood after placement
The new facets are fuchsia:
New facet color of Lu's black sandalwood
Lu's black sandalwood is a deciduous tree that is 20 meters high. This tree produces very valuable hardwoods, which are targeted and cut down and exported. However, large trees become so rare that the share of that tree species in total exports may be small. The species is limited to sharply reduced lowland, wet forests, where its population is further reduced through selective cutting of precious wood. The plant is listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2011).
Lu's black sandalwood
China is the world's largest importer of timber. Huangpu Port, Jingjiang Port and Zhangjiagang Port are the main entry points for Malagasy timber into China. China has also become an important importer, processor and consumer of Madagascar rosewood in the world.
Table 1. The price ranges of the three most traded Malagasy timbers in China [2017].
Price Ranges of The Three Most Traded Malagasy Timbers in China [2017]
Madagascar rosewood is not Luxe black sandalwood, madagascar rosewood is composed of many yellow sandalwood found only on the African island of Madagascar such as: Dalbergia baronii, D. greveana, D. madagascariensis, and D. monticola。 The dark purple wood of Bois de Rose (French, another tree species endemic to Madagascar) is also known as Madagascar rosewood. From the chart, the price of Dalbergia greveana in Madagascar is only one-tenth of the price of Lu's black sandalwood.
Madagascar rosewood
Madagascar rosewood is a very popular wood, a good material for guitars, and the heartwood ranges in color from light yellow brown to orange red to dark fuchsia to chocolate brown, usually accentuated by bold black ink lines and minor shades. Despite their considerable hardness and density, their straight grains and medium texture generally provide excellent processability. It has a beautiful cut, turn and polishing effect with a natural luster.
In addition, the large-leaf rosewood and the large-leaf yellow pear should also be distinguished, the large-leaf yellow pear refers to the Belize yellow sandalwood, but in the early years, more often refers to the long-leaf magpie kidney, due to the introduction of the new national standard, the long-leaf magpie kidney did not enter the national standard mahogany. Many timber merchants have changed the "real body" of the large-leaf yellow pear. Mahogany is so chaotic, sometimes commonly known as different scientific names, ever-changing from its origin, recognize the scientific name, understand the common name, is the key to learning mahogany knowledge.
Large-leaved yellow pear
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