Pink Ivory

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iPink Ivory
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rosales
Family: Rhamnaceae
Genus: Berchemia
Species: B. zeyheri
Binomial name
Berchemia zeyheri
(M. Berchem) C.L.P. Zeyher

Pink Ivory (Berchemia zeyheri), also called Red Ivory, umNini or umGoloty, is a very rare African wood used to make luxury products (for example billiard queues and knives). The Pink Ivory tree grows predominantly in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa. The wood is extremely hard and has a density of 990 g/dm³.

Pink Ivory is the royal tree of the Zulus because only the royal family were allowed to possess the wood. Anyone else possessing the wood (including foreigners) were punished with death. This last statement is incorrect, as it was a legend started to increase the value of the wood when sold overseas...

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Translated from German Wikipedia entry for Pink Ivory. http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantab/berchemzey.htm

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