The furniture bought at home, the shopkeeper said that it was a big red sour branch in South Africa,

The red sour branch is a large tropical evergreen tree, which is called in the north of China"Old mahogany", Guangdong, Guangxi called"Sour branches", the "National Mahogany Standard" is set as"Red sour branches"The red sour branch is a leguminous sandalwood wood, which is mainly produced in Southeast Asian countries and Central and South American countries and regions. The new cut surface of the red sour branch wood has the unique sour aroma of the sour branch wood, so it is called the sour branch. It is a kind of mahogany, which is mostly used to make mahogany furniture, mahogany decoration, trinkets, etc.

Big red sour branch, refers to sour branch wood, mainly in Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand and Southeast Asia, Central and South American countries such as Mexico, Panama, etc.; The leguminous plants produced in the traditional source of mahogany belong to the genus Dalbergia in five genera and eight categories.

Usually the mahogany industry refers to the big red sour branch generally refers to the Laos big red sour branch Cochin sandalwood or slightly concave sandalwood, which is recognized as the best sour branch wood, commonly known as old mahogany.

A.Color and texture: The color of the big red sour branches is generally dark red, with dark stripes, and the natural color of the wood is relatively consistent, and the big red sour branches produced in Laos are mostly reddish-brown, dark brown, black-brown and other stripes.

B.Smell: The big red sour branch generally has a sour vinegar smell, especially for the new section.

C.Feel: not as warm as red sandalwood, but also very delicate, brown eyes slender, due to the density of red acid branches, some are heavier than red sandalwood.

The first thing you need to know about the Chinese mahogany classification, the big red sour branch is a type of mahogany, which is mainly produced in Southeast Asia, such as Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The price is more expensive.

And African timber in China is not classified in the category of mahogany, that is to say, African Borog (that is, you talk about the African big red sour branch) and so on are known as mahogany, you can buy according to solid wood furniture, if you buy according to mahogany furniture will be a question mark.

Return it, the merchant said nonsense, there is no such statement, it is estimated that it is an African sour branch, not a mahogany, just use it as solid wood furniture.

Sorrel is a large tropical evergreen tree. Because it emits a sour vinegar smell when it is processed, it is named "sour branch wood". South Africa is subtropical, and I don't know if it grows sorrel trees.

I don't know the market price of red sour branches, but I know that there are three types of sour branches: white sour branches, red sour branches, and black sour branches. Black sour branches are the best, red sour branches are second, and white sour branches are the worst.

Red sour branch wood is a kind of mahogany, which is a high-grade and precious wood. It is precisely because of its preciousness that there are sometimes unscrupulous merchants who are shoddy and fake and real. The national standard stipulates that only the following eight types of wood can be called mahogany, and they are:

Rosewood, rosewood, incense sticks, black sorrel wood, red sorrel wood, wenge wood, ebony, striped ebony. The market price of home furnishings made of black acid branches is high, and it is basically an equivalent substitute for rosewood home furnishings. The red sour branch is generally more famous in Laos.