Dark Zebra Wood Flooring

Heartwood is a light brown or cream color with dark blackish brown streaks vaguely resembling a zebra s stripes.

Dark zebra wood flooring.

Grain is interlocked or wavy and produces alternating hard and soft grained material. We work with african exotic wood species only. It is at its best when quartersawn because it has a nervous disposition. The bark is.

Zebrawood exotic wood zebrawood or zebrano as it is known in europe is named after its charismatic dark and light striping. Zebrawood is an exotic wood native to the western african countries of cameroon and gabon. Zebrawood lumber has heartwood that is light brown or cream color with dark blackish brown streaks vaguely resembling a zebra s stripes. It is a hard wood with a medium to coarse texture.

The contrast between light and dark streaks is what makes this exceptional hardwood flooring option so popular and renowned. Every piece of wood is unique and the patterns of the striping are considerably varied hence the reason it is called zebrawood. Has a fairly coarse texture and open pores. Zebrawood is excellent for wood turning veneer furniture pens and knife handles.

Golden brown with pronounced dark brown streaks. Or homes that have a warm and rustic appeal. A tall tree to 150 feet. Shop for zebrawood characteristics of zebrawood.

This african hardwood flooring option is great for homes that have solid colored dark furniture. Zebrawood flooring tends to be lighter in color almost a yellow brown with streaks that tend to be a bit darker. The zebra like appearance is due to the light colored sapwood in contrast with the dark colored grain. Trunk diameters 48 60 over low buttresses.

Other names african zebrawood allen ele zebrano zingana. Some typical uses furniture accessories turnery veneer inlay. Texture is coarse with a lustrous surface. Zebrawood has a golden yellow heartwood with streaks of dark brown to black.

Zebrawood heartwood is a golden yellow with narrow veining or streaks of dark brown to black which gives quartered surfaces a zebra stripe appearance. What s the tree like. The dark and light bands give a zebra stripe look that accounts for the name but zebrawood is a name that many other. Bole straight and cylindrical but relatively short up to 50 feet.

Grain is usually wavy or interlocked.