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Microberlinia brazzavillensis is a tree in the family Leguminosae, found in West Africa. It is also called zebrano, [citation needed] zingana, [2] and allen ele, [citation needed] and is commonly sold in the US as zebrawood. The tree is tall and straight, growing up to 40 m in
The heartwood is a pale golden yellow, distinct from the very pale color of the sapwood and features narrow streaks of dark brown to black. Zebrawood can also be a pale brown with regular or irregular marks of dark brown in varying widths. It is almost always quartersawn to get the exciting alternating color pattern.
Zebrawood refers to several trees and the wood derived from them, including: Astronium fraxinifolium; Brachystegia spiciformis; Centrolobium robustum; Guettarda speciosa;
Cladrastis kentukea, the Kentucky yellowwood or American yellowwood (syn. C. lutea, C. tinctoria), is a species of Cladrastis native to the Southeastern United States, with a restricted range from western North Carolina west to eastern Oklahoma, and from southern Missouri and Indiana south to central Alabama.
Zanthoxylum pinnatum, commonly known as yellow wood, [2] is a species of flowering plant of the family Rutaceae native to Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands.It is a tree with pinnate leaves, white male and female flowers arranged in groups in leaf axils, and spherical, purple follicles containing a single black seed.
Brachystegia spiciformis, commonly known as zebrawood, [2] or msasa, [3] is a medium-sized African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers. The tree is broad and has a distinctive amber and wine red colour when the young leaves sprout during spring (August–September).
The yellow-spotted tree frog is pale green with bronze patches that highlight dark spots. It has entirely webbed toes and is set apart from other frogs by the cream markings on its thighs.
Podocarpus latifolius (real yellowwood, broad-leaved yellowwood, or South African yellowwood, Afrikaans: Opregte-geelhout, Northern Sotho: Mogôbagôba, Xhosa: Umcheya, Zulu: Umkhoba) [2] is a large evergreen tree up to 35 m high and 3 m trunk diameter, in the conifer family Podocarpaceae; it is the type species of the genus Podocarpus.