Almug Wood

This wood comes from a unique beautiful looking tree that grows mostly in Zimbabwe.

Almug wood. It is probably the red sandal-wood of India Pterocarpus santalinus. This tree does not grow however with the firs and cedars in Lebanon. Most writers at the present day follow Celsius who takes it to be the red sandalwood of China and the Indian Archipelago.

1 171 sq who refer it to the sandal- wood of commerce in Sanscrit rakta a view which is corroborated by the position of Ophir qv probably southward and eastward of the Red Sea in some part of India Pict. It is found on the Coromandel coast and in Ceylon. It is a fragrant wood and is used in China for incense in idol-worship.

It is a red-colored smooth and expensive-to-use wood. The almug tree yields heavy fine-grained wood that is notably black on the surfaces yet polishes to a rich ruby or garnet color. Additionally the the navy also of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir brought in from Ophir nice lots of almug trees and precious stones.

ALGUM OR almug TREES Heb. A tree or wood of the Bible 2 Chron. The plants of the Bible trees and shrubs by John Hutton Balfour 1866.

This tree belongs to the natural order Leguminosae sub-order Papilionaceae. The wood is hard heavy close-grained and of a fine red colour. The interpretation of Kimchi Targum in loc.

A cypress 28 Cupressus sempervirens horizontalis. Its hard to secure a great deal of Pink Ivory wood at any one time largely because there just arent that many trees available to supply a large demand. Celsius has been followed by most moderns since Celsius Hierobot.