Many merchants use neem wood to pass off as mahogany, how to distinguish it?

1.Mahogany identification, focusing on the wood grain, such as the wood grain of the pear is shallow and thin, straight as the vertical line, the wood grain of the sour branch is thick into black tendons, curved like water waves, and the wood grain of the chicken wings is bent like the peaks and peaks, and you can know it at a glance. In particular, the common tabby pattern and landscape pattern are simple and beautiful, elegant and fresh, and clearly recognizable.

2.Use a blade to scrape the back or bottom, legs, and carefully inspect and identify, such as scraping the red sandalwood with a blade, which is reddish-brown inside, which contrasts sharply with the purple-brown oxide layer on the surface. After a few days, the scraped surface will slowly turn purple-brown due to oxidation, and it will be false if there is no such symptom.

Look at the color and texture of the real mahogany furniture itself with red, yellow-red, sesame red and other natural colors. The wood grain is still clearly visible after painting. The sound can be heard, and normal mahogany furniture will make a crisp echo when struck, and there is no noise.

The texture is clear and fragrant.

Huanghuali refers to Hainan Huanghuali in the traditional concept, the color ranges from light yellow to purple red, the color is delicious, the texture is clear, the wood is hard and fragrant. Huanghuali is extremely difficult to grow, requires hundreds of thousands of years of growth, and was endangered in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

Summary. Hello pro Yes is Nanyang wood neem wood, (Latin scientific name: melia azedarach, English name or alias: China-berry. It is also called neem jujube, neem tree, and forest tree.

Deciduous tree, Neemaceae, up to 10 20 m. Its bark is longitudinally lobed, dark brown, purple old branches, and has a large number of small skin pores. Prefer warm and warm climates.

It likes light, has low soil requirements, and can grow in acidic soil, neutral soil, calcareous soil, and limestone mountains. Resistant to drying, barren and thin, resistant to dust and smoke. The growth rings are obvious.

ring-pore wood, early wood tube pore size is medium-sized, 2 5 cells wide, visible to the naked eye;

Is neem a South Sea wood?

Hello pro Yes is Nanyang wood neem wood, (Latin scientific name: melia azedarach), English name or alias:

china-berry。It is also called neem jujube, neem tree, and forest tree. Deciduous tree, Neemaceae, up to 10 20 m.

Its bark is longitudinally lobed, dark brown, purple old branches, and has a large number of small skin pores. Prefer warm and warm climates. It likes light, has low soil requirements, and can grow in acidic soil, neutral soil, calcareous soil, and limestone mountains.

Resistant to drying, barren and thin, resistant to dust and smoke. The growth rings are obvious. ring-pore wood, early wood tube pore size is medium-sized, 2 5 cells wide, visible to the naked eye;

The alias doesn't say it's a South Sea wood, how do you know it's South Seas wood.

Joy of light, light is yang.

Ocean, the ocean of three points of water.

Indonesian pineapple lattice is also called arayang, pineapple lattice is just a non-standard scientific name, so it is not neem wood is not arayang.

Phoebe and Cinnamomum camphora are in the same family, and Phoebe camphora is a genus of Lauraceae; Cinnamomum camphora is a genus of Lauraceae, and the common feeling is that the two are not easy to distinguish.

Golden silk is resistant to decay and can not rot for thousands of years when buried in the ground; Insect proof, golden silk nanmu has a fragrance of nanmu, which is used to store clothes, calligraphy and paintings, and can avoid insects; It is not cool in winter, not hot in summer, and does not hurt the body; The lines are fine and magnificent, exquisite and abnormal; It is not easy to deform, and rarely warps. The color of the golden silk is generally yellow with light green, and there are exceptions, some of which are yellow-reddish-brown. The crystals in the golden silk nanmu are obviously more than ordinary nanmu, the surface of the wood is shining golden in the sun, and the golden filament emerges, which has a supreme and noble elegant atmosphere.

**The hardness of the camphor tree is relatively high, not easy to wear, and is very suitable for carving. At the same time, the camphor tree contains extremely heavy oil and iron, and it will emit a different smell from ordinary wood when it is washed by a high-pressure water gun or sanded at high speed, which is more special! This kind of oil and iron makes the camphor tree not deformed, acid-alkali proof, and especially moisture-proof and rot-resistant.

Due to the rich "iron" element, the camphor wood will show the color after polishing and oxidation, and the color will become more noble with the passage of time. It is precisely because of the excellent characteristics of the camphor tree that it has become the first choice for some high-end wooden handicrafts.

So, how can we tell the difference between these two high-grade woods?

The difference between the appearance of the two: the color of the golden silk is mostly light yellow, orange yellow, sometimes mixed with gray, the texture is clear, elegant and quiet, the texture is warm and soft, and the texture without shrinkage is a very obvious parallel texture, similar to the annual ring pattern, which is the typical feature of the chord section and the radial section of Nanmu. Camphor wood has a slight annual ring pattern, light color, no sale of the clan hall has the golden silk Nan obvious, often golden, red gold and coffee color, with irregular longitudinal cracks.