Zebra wood

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Zebra wood from Microberlinia
Zebrano Microberlinia brazzavillensis
Macassar ebony or zebra wood from Diospyros celebica

With zebra wood are wood species whose occupation of grain on the pattern of the African steppe horses zebras recalls.

According to the German dictionary by Jakob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, zebra wood is ebony (Coromandelholz; Diospyros spp .; the marble woods Diospyros marmorata , Diospyros kurzii , Diospyros discolor and Diospyros oocarpa , as well as Diospyros celebica and Diospyros melanarusoxylon ) from East India and the wood of the Brazilian Guiana (Syn .: Omphalobium lambertii ), both popular as wood veneers . However, some other Connarus species are also referred to with zebra wood, such as Connarus lambertii u. a.

As well as from Centrolobium robustum from Brazil and from Microberlinia spp., Julbernardia pellegriniana and Cynometra spp. as well as various types of palm wood ( Cocos nucifera (also porcupine wood) or Arenga pinnata , Caryota urens , Borassus flabellifer and others). Dalbergia melanoxylon is also known as zebra wood, as are some Astronium species also known as tiger wood . Others are the tree species Brachystegia spiciformis and Pistacia integerrima as well as the marble or snakewood Zygia racemosa . Or the bush or small tree Guettarda speciosa .

Web links

  • Woods to avoid (PDF) Rainforest Relief (English) - guidelines for the protection of endangered wood species.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stripped ebony at Delta.
  2. ↑ Zebra wood. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 31 : Z-Zmasche - (XV). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1956 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  3. ↑ MM Grandtner: Elsevier's Dictionary of Trees. Volume 1: North America . Elsevier, 2005, ISBN 0-444-51784-7 , p. 246.
  4. ^ Fritz Spannagel : Furniture making. 10th edition, 1954, Schäfer, 2002, ISBN 978-3-87870-666-3 (reprint), p. 44.
  5. ↑ Josef Hölzl, Engelbert Bancher : Structure and properties of organic natural substances. Springer, 1965, ISBN 978-3-7091-8126-3 (reprint), p. 153.
  6. ↑ palm wood . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 15, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, p.  341 .
  7. ^ John H. Wiersema, Blanca León: World Economic Plants: A Standard Reference. CRC Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8493-2119-0 , p. 83.
  8. ^ John H. Wiersema, Blanca León: World Economic Plants: A Standard Reference. Second edition. CRC Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4665-7681-0 , p. 536.
  9. ^ GCM Birdwood: Catalog of the Vegetable Productions. Second Edition, Education Society's Press, 1865, p. 356.