Black And White Ebony Wood Database I m slowly grinding my way through roughly 800 wood species that have still yet to be listed on the site.
Black and white ebony wood database The word ebony comes from the ancient egyptian hbny through the ancient greek.
Black and white ebony wood database. Southeast asia myanmar burma and laos black and white ebony is an exotic wood with color that is reported to vary with species usually uniformly black with light colored bands pale to medium brown zones or with marked contrast between almost white and black wood. The wood has a fine texture with mostly straight grain takes a high finish and turns well. Other types of ebony include. Black and white ebony diospyros embryopteris a rare find is an exotic wood with color that will vary usually uniformly black with light colored bands pale to medium brown zones or with marked contrast between almost white and black wood.
Macassar striped ebony and black and white ebony. Ebony is a dense black brown hardwood most commonly yielded by several different species in the genus diospyros citation needed which also contains the persimmons ebony is dense enough to sink in water. This wood species is not listed in the cites appendices or on the iucn red list of threatened species. Not commonly available black and white ebony is very expensive on par with solid black species of ebony.
Black and white ebony diospyros spp gaboon ebony diospyros crassiflora. So i started digging and i really think i have african blackwood rather than ebony as the seller claimed. Black and white ebony diospyros spp ceylon ebony diospyros ebenum. Lol i purchased a stabilized block of it some years ago listed as indonesian ebony to use for a kitchen knife handle and ended up really liking it and wanting to get some more but i didn t find that much for sale when using that name as compared to the others.
Still commonly referred to as ceylon ebony because the medium sized tree reached its best development in sri lanka formerly known as ceylon. Black white ebony overview. I bought some ebony from a lumberyard but discovered that the wood exuded some fragrance when sawn. It is finely textured and has a mirror finish when polished making it valuable as an ornamental wood.