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Tamboti Tamboti
The sapwood is creamy white and the heartwood rich brown with a satin-like lustre.

Tatajuba Tatajuba
The sapwood is pale yellow to yellowish-white in colour, the heartwood is yellow with darker streaks when first cut, becoming lustrous golden-brown.

 

Burnese Teak Teak - Burmese
The sapwood is yellowish or whitish in colour and sharply defined from the heartwood , which is golden-brown.

 

Teak - Rhodesian
The heartwood is reddish-brown sometimes marked with irregular black lines or flecks, and sharply defined from the lighter coloured narrow sapwood.

 

Walnut - American
The sapwood is usually narrow and pale brown in colour, the heartwood varying in colour from rich chocolate brown to purplish-black.

Wild Olive Wild olive
The sapwood is whitish to pale brown, the heartwood is very attractive dark golden to reddish brown.

 

Yellow Birch Yellow Birch
The sapwood is light yellow to white in colour and the heartwood a distinct reddish brown.

 

Yellowwood Yellowwood
The wood is a light yellowish brown with little distinction between sapwood and heartwood.

 

Zebrano ZEBRANO
A decorative wood, light gold in colour with narrow streaks that are dark brown to almost black.

 

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