Snakewood

Wood from Brosimum guianense

Snakewood is an ambiguous German name for several different plant genera or species or their wood. Most often the term is used at

• Representatives of the genus Brosimum from the mulberry family, whose particularly structured and extremely hard wood is used, for example, in musical instrument making, in particular:
  • Brosimum guianense

Sometimes the name is also used for

• of the genus Strychnos from the family of the nugget plants, such as:
  • Common peanut ( Strychnos colubrina )
• Bois de serpent, Serpent wood, also zebra or marble wood Zygia racemosa (Syn .: Marmoroxylon racemosum and Pithecellobium racemosum )
• however, other types of wood are also called snakewood, such as those of some Acacia species; such as Acacia xiphophylla and Acacia intorta u. a.
• or some Cecropia species such as Cecropia peltata , Cecropia palmata and the like. a.

furthermore for the following non-tree-shaped species:

• Indian snake root ( Rauvolfia serpentina ) from the dog venom family
• Colubrina spp., Colubrina texensis and the like a.
• Condalia spp., Some species

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.