What Is Ebony Lumber?

(Gloomy Wood) It has both the quaintness of wood and the charm of stone. It is known as "Oriental God Wood" and "Plant Mummy". Earthquakes, floods, mudslides, etc. buried all above-ground plant life and other low-lying places such as ancient riverbeds, and some trees in the silt. Under the condition of hypoxia and high pressure, bacteria and other microorganisms have formed ebony through carbonization process for tens of millions of years, so it is also called "carbonized wood". Throughout the ages, ebony has been used as an evil spirit, and handicrafts, Buddha statues, and amulet pendants have been produced. The ancients said: "Having a ebony halfway home is better than a box of treasure."

Ebony is hard in nature, mostly brown-black, black-red, gold, khaki and so on. The cut surface is smooth, the wood texture is delicate, and the polished surface can reach the mirror surface, and some ebony woods have beaten it.

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The gloomy wood is generally black, so

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Interpretation: Ebony,

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The law of ownership of ebony is still blank. According to the 2007

Ebony tree species

Ebony (D.ebenum), D.crassifcora, D.pilosantnera, D.melanoxylon, Dcelebica, Dtomentosa, East India Ebony (Dmontana), Andaman ebony (D.marmorata), Philippine ebony (D.philipp), coate ebony (D.vear), Taiwan ebony (Ddiscolor), etc.

Ebony windmill wood

The windmill wood is a Genus Windmill Rattan. The heartwood is dark brown to brownish brown and slightly purple. Heartwood tube holes contain black gum and sediment, silica. Axial thin-walled tissue Ji-shaped, annular tube bundle-shaped, sparsely wing-shaped. Wood rays are non-overlapping; single-row rays (sparse pairs or two rows). The rays vary in width and width. The rays contain a large amount of white gum and crystals, making the wood rays appear white spots at the section of the wood chord. The air-dry density is 0.91 to 1.10 g / cm3, which is similar to ebony. When many furniture factories in Guangdong make their furniture, the dots look like ebony on the surface and they are called "ebony." The main difference from ebony: The large tube hole clearly sees to the naked eye: the wood rays contain white crystals, which are thin white lines on the cross section.

Ebony Gloomy Wood

Gloomy wood is carbonized wood, mainly because in ancient times, trees in virgin forests suffered unexpected geological disasters, such as rivers, floods, mudslides, and other geological disasters. They rushed the trees into the river and were buried in the riverbed Medium; or earthquakes, landslides caused trees to be buried in anoxic, shady formations. After thousands of years or even tens of thousands of years of nature's abrasion and formation, a plant "mummy" that looks like stone but not wood and wood is not wood. The gloomy wood has both the quaint and stone charm of the wood, its texture is solid and heavy, the color is black and black, the cross section is smooth and delicate, and it is resistant to decay and insects. So the Sichuanese call it "ebony", the Northeast people call it "langmu" and "Shenjiang wood", and the western people call it "Oriental Shenmu".

The gloomy wood is not a tree species, but a collective name of various trees that have long been buried underground. There are many kinds of them, which are identified as: cypress, fir, nanmu, red vertebra, mother, oak, lotus, iron, etc. Ebony wood is hard, mostly brown-black, black-red, gold, and tan. The cut surface is smooth and the wood texture is delicate.

Ebony Dalbergia

Loose porous material. Heartwood dark brown to yellow purple brown, often with black stripes. The hole is visible to the naked eye. Axial thin-walled tissues are few and are usually not visible to the naked eye. They are mainly detached, star-shaped, clustered, thin linear and poly-winged. It can be seen under the wooden ray magnifier, so is the wave mark, and the ray organization has the same shape in single and multiple rows (2 rows, even 3 rows).

After soaking the wood with water, it has a weak acidity; the structure is very fine; the air-dry density is 1.00 to 1.33g / cm. East African ebony is a black rosewood type, which is also called "purple sandalwood" on the market. It is slightly larger than ebony, but because of the large hollows, bends, deep grooves, and tree knobs in its logs, the yield is very low, so the price of logs is much lower than ebony. The main differences with ebony: wet wood has a sour odor, the body has wave marks, and the ray organization has the same shape in single and multiple rows (2 rows, even 3 rows).