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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.
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.
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.
The leaves are compound pinnate, 20–30 cm long, with 5-11 (mostly 7-9) alternately arranged leaflets; each leaflet broad ovate with an acute apex; 6–13 cm long and 3–7 cm broad, with an entire margin and a thinly to densely hairy underside. In the fall, the leaves turn a mix of yellow, gold, and orange. [citation needed]
Zebrawood refers to several trees and the wood derived from them, including: Astronium fraxinifolium; Brachystegia spiciformis; Centrolobium robustum; Guettarda speciosa;
The texture of Microberlinia Brazzavillensis wood. 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 leaves are arranged in spirals on the branches. They are small and narrow, up to 4.5 cm (1.8 in) long by about 6 mm (1 ⁄ 4 in) wide. They are green to yellowish, hairless, and leathery and somewhat waxy in texture. It is a dioecious species, with male and female structures on separate plants.
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).