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The following species are available in
the Explorer Africa collection. Click on any species photo or name to learn more. |
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Afrormosia
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Afrormosia is very uniform colored dense hardwood which offers a lot of "ribbon striped" figure when quarter sawn.
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Bubinga
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Bubinga, also known as African Rosewood, is a beautiful dense hardwood with a rose-colored background and darker purple striping. In the quartered figure, Bubinga exhibits considerable "flame" figure and in flat sawn offers "rosewood" graining.
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Sapele
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This species is native to Africa. A lightweight and cedar-scented wood.
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Sapele, Espresso
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This species is native to Africa. A lightweight and cedar-scented wood.
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Shedua-Mutenye
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Shedua/Mutenye is a beautiful wood with tan-brown background with fine black striping.
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Wenge
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Wenge is a uniform dark chocolate brown color that is used primarily for contrasting accent strips or in those areas desiring such bold dark look. Wenge is offered in selected straight grain for a very uniform look or in mixed graining, where the flat sawn figure yields a visible “flower” look. A related species from East Africa, Panga Panga, is also offered in the trade. It has the same graining as Wenge but with a more yellowish tone to it and never darkens as much as Wenge.
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