The truth about the origin of the names of small-leaf rosewood and large-leaf rosewood

In 1996, someone imported a kind of wood hard wood from Madagascar. The new cut surface of the heartwood is orange-red, which turns dark purple over time, and the texture characteristics are similar to the rosewood used in classical furniture in China. This wood has been "identified" as rosewood by an authoritative institution. Since then, after arduous efforts, a certain trade department has finally discovered rosewood species from the dense forests of islands in the Indian Ocean, and acquired hundreds of tons of rosewood raw materials, which is the first time since the Ming and Qing dynasties that a large number of rosewood raw materials have been imported. After the identification of ming and qing dynasty classical furniture experts at the Palace Museum in Beijing, it was confirmed that it was old rosewood that was used during the Ming Dynasty in China, thus denying the claim that the real rosewood has long been extinct for a hundred years" The news was widely spread. Many people start hoarding this "rosewood" and buying furniture or crafts made from these "rosewood".

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This news was called in magazines, TELEVISION advertisements, and the Internet at that time that this so-called "rosewood" was widely used by the Ming and Qing emperors, and many rosewood furniture in the Forbidden City was used in this so-called "island rosewood" (in fact, there is no such plant in "plant taxonomy", it is purely fabricated). This alarmed the United Nations Environmental Protection Organization. The United Nations Environmental Protection Organization (UNEEP) informed the Malagasy government to stop logging rosewood and the rosewood trade.

Madagascar then submitted a written report to the United States for Environmental Protection that it did not produce rosewood and that the dark hardwoods it exported to China and other countries were not rosewood. The United Nations Environmental Protection Organization also specially invited experts from the French Institute of Tropical Timber to visit Madagascar and drafted a detailed report to the United Nations to confirm the fact that the report of Madagascar was true. In order to correct the misleading, Madagascar officially provided all the information of "Lu's Black Sandalwood" to the Chinese Forestry Research Department, and the truth has since been revealed.

But at this point, for this kind of wood, in the country is already hoarding, buying and buying. The truth of the matter poses a great threat to the credibility and interests of some people. The ideas or interests of several people have become an international joke, and in the face of the truth, how to resolve this embarrassing situation.

In 2000, the National Standard for Mahogany of the People's Republic of China (Mahogany GB/T 18107-2000) was hastily introduced, and the National Mahogany Standard stipulated that 33 wood varieties of 5 genera and 8 categories were mahogany. Among them is this kind of "rosewood" that is not rosewood. It is classified as a black acid branch in the genus Yellow Sandalwood, and the scientific name is "Lu's Black Sandalwood". In this way, this "Lu's black sandalwood" has become mahogany and has become a precious wood. But after all, this makes it change from rosewood to sour branch wood, the drop is still relatively large, so the real rosewood (sandalwood rosewood) has an extra name "small leaf rosewood". Why is it called "small leaf rosewood", because there is also a "big leaf rosewood" name to exist, that is, this black acid branch of the Lu's black sandalwood.

In 2001, some people made this process of reversing black and white public, in fact, at that time, many people already knew the truth of "Lu's black sandalwood", and now it seems that not many people know the truth about this matter. When it comes to the origin of the names "small-leaf rosewood" and "big-leaf rosewood", most people are only blinded by the so-called "small-eyed rosewood and "big-eyed rosewood" in the beautiful story of the evolution of children's voices.

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