![]() It is generally VERY expensive and requires some care in working as it is slightly brittle and prone to cracking. It's the black kind, although it actually frequently has lighter streaks. This is what people normally mean when they say "ebony". "Gaboon ebony", which is the common name I use for what is also called "Nigerian ebony", "East African ebony", and many other names depending on country of origin. More detailed discussion of each of these is available on their individual pages on this web site. Some of this information was provided by Bill Mudry, whom I thank once again for all of his helpful information about botanical names.įor craftspeople in the USA (the primary audience of this web site), there are two main types of ebony and a very small number of others. Some of the wood-producing trees and shrubs have common names that include the word ebony, but some also use "plum" or "persimmon" and many others, and they are all too obscure for me to feel obliged to include them on this web site, especially since many of the ones I DO include below are not even close to being readily available in the USA. How many OTHER Diospyros species there are I do not know. The Diospyros genus contains at the very least another 200 species that are not listed here but that do produce useable wood. I do not represent this list as being at all complete for those Diospyros species that produce even small sizes of useful wood, but it does contain a good many, probably most, of the Diospyros species for which any craftsperson in the USA could hope to obtain even a wood sample, and for many of them, there is even less hope of obtaining an amount of wood adequate for even small craft objects. ![]() ![]() The genus Diospyros open main page for all woods open page 2 for articlesĪ discussion of the genus Diospyros of the family Ebenaceae, the ebony family
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