Zebra Wood

It is distinguished by pale cream to light brown coloring with distict brown to black lines throughout.

Zebra wood. Using a trick common to other members of the pea family the zebrawood makes a significant contribution to ecosystem health. Has a fairly coarse texture and open pores. The sapwood is sharply demarcated from the heart and the bark can be up to 12 thick.

Grain is usually wavy or interlocked. Zebrawood has a medium to coarse texture and a wavy or interlocked grain pattern. Grain is interlocked or wavy and produces alternating hard and soft grained material.

Zebrawood is an exotic wood native to the Western African countries of Cameroon and Gabon. Zebrawood is excellent for wood turning veneer furniture pens and knife handles. Texture is coarse with a lustrous surface.

Thousands of new high-quality pictures added every day. It is a heavy hard wood with a somewhat coarse texture often with an interlocked or wavy grain. Heartwood is a light brown or cream color with dark blackish brown streaks vaguely resembling a zebras stripes.

It is almost always quartersawn to get the exciting alternating colour pattern and a straight grain. If the lumber is quartersawn the lines are very straight but if flatsawn the lines can have a wavy or flame pattern. Its uppermost branches sprout a series of miniature leaves each smaller than a paperclip and its flowers resemble those of a garden pea.

Zebrawood also known as Zebrano is a type of wood derived from several tree species it is characterized by dark brown to black stripes that are reminiscent of an African zebraThe name was initially applied to the wood originating from the Astronium Graveolens tree species a large tree native to Central America. Zebrawood can also be a pale brown with regular or irregular marks of dark brown in varying widths. Zebrawood glues well and will take most finishes although some woodworkers may prefer to fill the larger pores.