Bouls Macassar Ebony 52 mm

Makassar is a hardwood and belongs to the coloured ebony woods. Its dark and at the same time elegant wood appearance has a grey-brown to red-brown basic tone with dark brown to black stripes. The smooth and striking wood thus acquires a distinctly striped structure. Dark mineral constituents are occasionally visible in the pore grooves on the lateral surfaces.

Trade names and other names

German: Makassar, Ebony, Coromandel
 English: Ebony
 French: Ebène macassar
 Italian: Ebano macassar
 Spanish: n.a.
 Dutch: n.a.
 Portuguese: n.a.
 Arabic: n.a.
 Chinese: 黑檀

Available thicknesses

50, 52, 60 mm, other thicknesses on request

Occurrence

Makassar is widespread in East India, Bombay, Sri Lanka and Sumatra.

Trunk and bark

Makassar ebony is a large tree up to 30m high and about 1m in diameter. The stem is up to 18m knot-free and well formed in Makassar Ebony.

Characteristics and wood colour

Pores as short radial groups, very small. Growth zones are not visible in ebony. Ebony has a black heartwood with light reddish brown stripes. This makes it very decorative. The sapwood of ebony is whitish to light grey, very broad and unusable.