Let’s talk about how to choose hedgehog rosewood wood

Hedgehog rosewood belongs to the national standard mahogany. The ones produced in Gabon and other countries are not hedgehog rosewood and do not belong to the national standard mahogany. They are African rosewood and are mainly used for furniture. Decorative, inlaid, high-grade decorative wooden floors.

Hedgehog rosewood: According to the "New National Standard" (Redwood GB/T18107-2017), there are 29 main species in 5 genera and 8 categories, mainly produced in tropical Africa: Gambia, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Senegal , western Mozambique and other African countries are produced.

On-site identification method:

1. The hedgehog red sandalwood seen in the market is made of logs and canary wood, 2-3 m long, with a diameter of 12-40 cm or more, and a small amount of 40 cm or more.

2． Body color ranges from tan to dark tan with red, purple or black stripes.

3. After the sawdust is submerged in water, the fluorescence phenomenon is not obvious. The pungent smell is weak, and sometimes there is a sour or sour smell.

4. The new incision is rough and oily.

5． Under a magnifying glass, the tube pores are medium to fine and the parenchyma is abundant. Banded, wavy shape

Many merchants in the market think that hedgehog rosewood is African rosewood, and African rosewood is hedgehog rosewood.

In fact, this is a wrong understanding. Africa is generally said in the market Rosewood is actually an African rosewood, not a hedgehog rosewood. Many people who make furniture do not have a thorough understanding of the materials. Some manufacturers did not know what kind of material Hedgehog Rosewood was at first, but they just felt that it did not have the smell of Asian rosewood. To distinguish it, some people called it African rosewood. Since they are both Produced in Africa, it is also called African rosewood, so hedgehog rosewood has been mistaken for Asian rosewood for a long time. Even now, there are still manufacturers who still don’t know that hedgehog rosewood actually belongs to mahogany, and are cautiously worried that their “high-flying” myth will be exposed.

Not everyone thinks that the aroma of hedgehog rosewood is a fragrance, but everyone is aware of the smell of Asian rosewood, so instead of distinguishing it by the presence or absence of fragrance, it is better to use The difference between the presence and absence of odor is real. Hedgehog red sandalwood is produced in many places, and the fragrance varies greatly from place to place. Some are as fragrant as fragrant rosewood, some are slightly fragrant, some are unscented, and some are fragrant and smelly. Generally speaking, Mali origin has the best fragrance (the wood is the heaviest and deepest) Red, mainly red with brown and black, the same color as red rosewood, the best oiliness), Bissau is also very fragrant (red with yellow, not as oily as Mali, the texture is straighter and mostly wood grain), Gambia has Some are fragrant and some are not fragrant (mainly red, brown and yellow, the texture is changeable, rich in light and shadow, good in oiliness, and the wood has small brown eyes). The wood of Ivory Coast is also very fragrant, such as Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, The aesthetic elements of woody oily wood from other places of origin are not as good as those of Shikoku mentioned above.

Differences from African rosewood

First of all, we will introduce hedgehog rosewood. Hedgehog rosewood belongs to the genus Rosewood and rosewood in the rosewood national standard. Hedgehog rosewood is a diffuse-porous material with an obvious tendency to have half-ring pores. The growth rings are quite obvious. The heartwood is orange-red, brick-red or purple-red, often with dark stripes, and scratches are visible to obvious; the aroma is absent or very weak; the structure is fine; the texture is interlaced. Air-dry density: 0.85g/cm3.

Put the sawdust in your mouth, chew it and spit it out. Your saliva will turn brown and your mouth will feel a little smooth. Strong luster and heavy weight. Strong nail grip. The planed surface is smooth. The wood is stable in nature, not easily deformed, cracked, rot-resistant, insect-free, and the color does not fade. The heartwood board has been placed on the balcony for 2 years, and there is no aging on the surface. Even after wiping off the dust, it is still fresh.

Hedgehog rosewood is mainly produced in tropical Africa, and because its color and pattern are similar to huanghuali, it is called "African huanghuali", "African rosewood", "African rosewood", " "Feihua", these are all irregular names that are popular and used by merchants for various purposes. These irregular names cannot be used to specifically refer to hedgehog rosewood. They are broad category concepts, and hedgehog rosewood specifically refers to a tree species, which is one of the 33 tree species in the national standard for mahogany.

"African rosewood" literally refers to the rosewood produced in Africa, which is the hedgehog rosewood in the national standard of mahogany. However, merchants like to take advantage of wording. They call African rosewood that does not belong to the rosewood category, such as rosewood, African rosewood, and other Asian rosewood and grass rosewood, also known as "African rosewood" or "African rosewood." These African rosewood The wood properties of rosewood are inferior to those of rosewood and cannot meet the national standard of mahogany, so it is not included in the category of mahogany.

They enter the timber market under the brand name of "African rosewood", and they act like fish. Furniture manufacturers use these woods to make furniture, and there is "African rosewood" furniture ("African rosewood" furniture referred to in this article refers to furniture made of Asian rosewood and grass rosewood). Large quantities of "African rosewood" "The flood of furniture in the market has had a negative impact on real rosewood furniture, causing many people to misunderstand the quality of rosewood furniture. In the eyes of laymen, there is no difference between "African rosewood" furniture and real rosewood furniture, or "African rosewood" furniture is rosewood furniture, which implicitly positions rosewood furniture at the low-end level. Only those who understand mahogany furniture know that real rosewood furniture is much superior to "African rosewood" furniture.

To put it simply, the difference between "African rosewood" and hedgehog rosewood is that hedgehog rosewood is a real rosewood and belongs to mahogany, but "African rosewood" is not necessarily rosewood in mahogany. "African rosewood" is rosewood and rosewood, which are not mahogany. This is the essential difference between "African Rosewood" and Hedgehog Rosewood. Therefore, the "African rosewood" mentioned by merchants may be rosewood, hedgehog rosewood, or non-mahogany wood such as African rosewood and grass rosewood, so everyone should be vigilant.

Hedgehog rosewood is mainly produced in tropical western African countries, so it is also commonly known as "African rosewood" by many people in the market. "African rosewood" is a more general common name, which literally refers to rosewood produced in Africa.

In the rosewood market, the previous common understanding was that African rosewood produced in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Gambia, and Sierra Leone was the authentic "hedgehog rosewood", while others were produced in Nigeria, Ghana, The sour-smelling African rosewood in Togo, Benin and other countries is not the hedgehog rosewood in the national standard of mahogany, but the "Andersen rosewood" that is very similar to the hedgehog rosewood, and is "Asian rosewood".

However, recently, the "real identity" of "African rosewood (Asian rosewood)" produced in Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Benin and other countries has been corrected in academia to be "hedgehog rosewood", and in It was officially listed as an internationally endangered species on May 9, 2016.

Domestic customs have generally identified African rosewood from Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, Togo and other countries as "Pterocarpus antunesii" for customs declaration processing, and the tax is also higher than that of hedgehog rosewood. Lower. The reason for this may be that some identification agencies mistakenly identified hedgehog rosewood logs from Nigeria, Ghana and other countries as Andersen rosewood based on smell. But in fact, rosewood is a southern African subspecies of bright rosewood. It is distributed in Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. There is no rosewood in West Africa at all!

The African rosewood logs imported from West African countries are all hedgehog rosewood

Many domestic mahogany furniture factories that operate and process this wood species are misled by this, thinking that they are not dealing in hedgehog rosewood. , but "Yahuali", and felt uneasy because of it.

The following is an authoritative foreign academic information on hedgehog rosewood, which statistics the import sources of China's hedgehog rosewood based on China Customs data from September 2014 to August 2015:

< p>Country sources of China’s total import value of hedgehog rosewood: Nigeria 38%, Ghana 18%, Gambia and Cote d’Ivoire 11% each, Guinea-Bissau 8%, Benin 7%, Togo 5%, Mali and Sierra Leone 1% each . (Data from China Customs from September 2014 to August 2015)

According to the above data, it can be seen that all West African countries such as Nigeria and Ghana are treated as "Andy's Rosewood" and "Yahuali" domestically. The non-flowering logs are counted internationally as hedgehog rosewood species.

Including the product name "Kosso" commonly used when exporting to Nigeria. Although it is usually regarded as "Yahuali" in China, in fact "Kosso" is also one of the main trade names of hedgehog rosewood.

The main commercial names of hedgehog rosewood are: Kosso, Keno, Palissandre du Senegal, African Barwood, African teak, African kino tree tree), Vêne/Ven (Vene), Kino de Gambia, Santal rouge d'Afrique/Hérissé, Pau de Sangue (Bosanger - Portuguese-speaking African countries).

There is a long way to go to correct the misunderstanding about the name of rosewood hedgehog

A tree species, affected by many conditions such as climate and geography, will mutate to form subspecies and become a population. Taking the most obvious dyed rosewood as an example, the dyed rosewood produced in Zambia generally has a higher density, while the dyed rosewood produced in Mozambique has a lower density and larger tube pores. Although the dyed red sandalwood produced in the two places has very obvious differences in material, they are both dyed red sandalwood.

There is a long way to go to correct the misunderstanding about the name of rosewood hedgehog

A tree species, affected by many conditions such as climate and geography, will mutate to form subspecies and become a population. Taking the most obvious dyed rosewood as an example, the dyed rosewood produced in Zambia generally has a higher density, while the dyed rosewood produced in Mozambique has a lower density and larger tube pores. Although the dyed red sandalwood produced in the two places has very obvious differences in material, they are both dyed red sandalwood.

Although there are some differences in material color and smell of hedgehog rosewood from Nigeria, Ghana, Gambia and other countries (including obvious differences between the eastern material and western material in Taraba State, Nigeria), this does not mean that they Just different tree species!

The names "An's Rosewood" and "Yahuali" have become common knowledge in the market over the years. Although domestic scholars, academic institutions and industry media have now Despite constant corrections and clarifications, most mahogany furniture factories that deal with this wood species still do not understand this situation, or even if they hear about it, they are still doubtful. Until recently, many mahogany manufacturers still "firmly believe" that what they do is just " "Asian rosewood" instead of hedgehog rosewood!

It will take a long time to solve the "three feet of ice" problem. The misunderstanding about hedgehog rosewood in the mahogany market still needs to be constantly publicized and corrected, and there is a long way to go. Far!