the Botanical name - Machaerium scleroxilon. Dalbergia variabilis
The commercial name: Santos Rosewood.
Grows in the South America, first of all in East Brazil in damp tropical woods. It is very seldom used for interline interval manufacturing, as trees very small.
Wood is very various on drawing and colour, varies from rozovato-brown to densely violet-brown. Zabolon' almost white, sharply differs from a kernel. The core has yellow colour with randomly located reddish strips, striped drawing, sometimes with stains which become colourless on the sun and open air. A structure of the average size, sometimes the granular. Wood oily by sight, during processing is felt a pleasant smell.
It is firm, heavy wood. Because of small diameter often has defects. The pink tree is not inclined to korobleniyu. The polished surfaces deduce magnificent drawing on the foreground. A little difficultly gives in to machining because of the raised hardness, quickly zatuplyaet cutting edges. Can give exclusively smooth surface at processing and furnish, but sometimes too maslyanista for high-quality polishing. Wood is known about 200 years as the decorative material applied in the form of integral wood and an interline interval. The piano, krasnoderevnyh products and in an integral kind - for is art-decorative hand-made articles, manufacturing of handles of knifes etc. is used in the form of an interline interval for facing of furniture, grand pianos,
Volume weight in an air-dry condition: about 870 kg/cubic metres