AFRICAN BLACK 



No. 52. AFRICAN BLACK-WOOD. DalU 

 melanoxylon. Guill. and Perr. 



ierra Leone . 

 * -wood ( : ^'oholz ( i 



Hardness Grade I. 

 Taste none. Solution 

 with alcohol, deep por: 

 11 with a liv 

 black juice. 



Grain. Coarse but 

 glassy and cold to {he touc 

 lustrous, pores dull if 

 k.? 



similar , 



ware, et< . Almost in'. 

 Scott- 1 



-ner (131), L. 12, ] 

 Colour. Jet-black. 

 sections. Sharply d 

 sap-wood. 



Anatomical Characters. 

 Pores. Visible only 

 iy distributed br. 

 occasionally grouped o 

 nearly always with bla 

 Rays. Almost invis 

 than a large pore-wid 

 avoiding them, genth 

 denser and darker th. 

 invisible in the solid. 

 >igs. Fairly cl- , 

 pores, almost a po 

 zone poor in zone- 

 prominent pigmei; 

 Soft-tissue. Ab 1 



grou 



Ra 



brownis; 



the n<-; 



ction 







like lines ab 

 pigmented, 



Pith. 



/?</ 



t. often 

 fating : 

 ground t 



od. 



.ed near the pith by more nume 

 -everal r-' 1 



s difficult to trace in older wood). 

 ^ are quite independent of t 

 in fine, concentric, much-waved 

 ind colour of the r . 

 numerous, about 5-7 per i 



dense dearly \v: 

 fores inconspicuou- 

 with black i -.ents ; shining, reflect the 



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