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Main Uses
Parquet or strip flooring, joinery, general construction, specialty items.
Wenge is used as a hickory substitute in sporting goods, also for decorative veneer.
General Description
Heartwood dark brown to almost black with alternate layers of
light and dark tissue forming a decorative figure; sapwood yellowish white, clearly
demarcated. Texture rather coarse; grain straight.
Working Properties
Sawing and machining somewhat difficult, rapid blunting of cutting
edges occurs, turns well, difficult to glue if resinous
Botanical Name :
Leguminosae
Common Names :
Millettia laurentii: Wenge (Zaire), Awong (Cameroon). Millettia stuhlmannii:
Panga panga, Mpande (Tanzania).
Where it Grows
Southern regions of Tanzania and Mozambique, found in open forests.
Wenge occurs in the Congo region in periodically inundated swampy forests.
wood type: WENGE
