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Guettarda speciosa, with common names sea randa, or zebra wood, [3] [4] is a species of shrub in the family Rubiaceae found in coastal habitats in tropical areas around the Pacific Ocean, including the coastline of central and northern Queensland and Northern Territory in Australia, and Pacific Islands, including Micronesia, French Polynesia and Fiji, Malaysia and Indonesia, Maldives and the ...
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;
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 height with a diameter of up to 1 m. The flower has white petals and, as other legumes do, the tree produces pods.
It grows from the leaf axils. The female cone has one scale bearing one seed about 1 to 2 cm (0.39 to 0.79 in) long. The gray-green seed is drupe-like with a woody coat covered in a fleshy, resinous skin. [3] Some of the largest individuals occur in the Knysna-Amatole montane forests, where some specimens are over 1,000 years old. [1]
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).
Glen Ridge, Princeton, Maplewood, Montclair, Morristown and West Orange are among the New Jersey towns that have passed restrictions on them. Leaf blowers are certainly loud. They have clocked in ...
The sapwood is 6 to 10 cm (2 to 4 in) thick and clearly demarcated from the heartwood, which is pale yellow to light tan with dark streaks. The wood texture is coarse and the grain interlocking. The wood is moderately durable and is used for turnery , furniture-making and cabinet-making; it can be used to make objects such as tool handles ...