Kingwood (wood)

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Kingwood is classic furniture wood, almost exclusively used for inlays on very fine furniture. It is purple with many fine darker stripes. It is yielded by Dalbergia cearensis, a smallish tree restricted to a small area in Brazil. Other woods yielded by the same genus are cocobolo, rosewood, tulipwood. A picture can be found at sveneers.com

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