Characteristics of ebony trees This is a woody plant, about 8-20m high.
Average diameter of about 0.3m, many perennials are much larger in size.
This plant has a relatively large foliage, the flowers are small, a single yellow color is female, while the male flowers grow about 3-5 flowers on the armpits of the leaves.
Ebony trees are usually rhinos in July, this is a light-loving tree, growing slowly.
Current types of ebony
1. Horned ebony
This type of wood is black and quite heavy, equivalent to rosewood, especially very high hardness but brittle. Therefore, the processing of this type of wood requires skilled workers, not negligent when processing horned ebony.
2. Black ebony
This kind of wood has a very nice gloss that few woods can match, besides this black ebony has very few shavings. But this kind of wood has the disadvantage is for places such as the air-conditioned room where the climate changes so suddenly, there will appear pores.
3. Striped ebony
This kind of wood is green like horse manure, and later it will lose its color and return to black like other ebony.
4. Flower ebony
This wood has a fairly high and brittle hardness, so it has a high value for finished ingredients
Application of ebony
This type of wood is often used for ebony furniture, ebony statues ... all of which are of high value, many families may be eligible for this type of furniture.
Choose for your family the ebony wood furniture as soon as possible, because the situation of ebony is getting scarce because this kind of wood has been in the red book of protected trees.