the Botanical name - Diospyros crassiflora.
The German name - Ebenholz, the English name - Macassar ebony.
Trees or bushes from family ebenovyh (Ebenaseae). Grow in Jugo - East Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, etc.). Green ebenovoe a tree receive mainly from Tecoma leucoxylon families bignonievyh from Central America.
Wood colouring varies from green to the black. The best grades ebenovogo a tree receive from tropical kinds of a persimmon (Diospyros crassiflora, D. ebenum, D. haplostylis, D. melanoxylon. D. reticulata, etc.); them yadrovaya wood black, a homogeneous structure, heavy, firm; year rings and serdcevinnye beams are almost imperceptible. As a substitute ebenovogo a tree wood of the Caucasian persimmon (Diospyros lotus) from Transcaucasia and Central Asia often serves.
Wood very dense and heavy, sinks in water. It is applied to furnish of expensive furniture, manufacturing of various hand-made articles, musical instruments, incrustations. And in art parquet floors. Wood Ebena is elegantly decorative, that in a combination to practically eternal operational characteristics, allows to use it for creation of exclusive interiors. In expensive furnish it use together with metal that increases natural beauty of a tree. An obligatory condition is drilling of apertures under nails and screws. Application of varnishes, glues and first coats on a water basis is not recommended.
Volume weight in an air-dry condition: 1200 - 1300 kg/cubic metres