Padouk
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P.dalbergioides (Andaman Padouk)
P.indicus (Narra)
P.angolensis (Muninga)
P.macrocarpus(Burmese rosewood)
P.soyauxii (African Padouk)
P.satalinus (Red Sandelwood)
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Padauk (or padouk) is an Indonesian collective name for a group of fragrant timbers and trees from the genus Pterocarpus, found in the tropics of southeast Asia, South America and Africa, most having a reddish wood or reddish brown to golden, with sometimes striped black grain. Burmese padouk is P. macrocarpus, Andaman padouk is P. dalbergioides and the historic Zitan wood of classic chinese furniture is P.satalinus or Red Sandelwood aka Red Sanders wood.
The wood, known in Indonesia as Amboyna is P.indicus is used for decoration and in making of Furniture and keys on a Marimba. It also produces large pippy outgrowths on the tree which are known as burrs they are finely sliced to produce a extemely decorative veneer called Amboyna named after a island in the phillipines from where much of this material was originaly found. Muniga is P. angolensis is one of the premiun African furniture timbers it is a golden brown with occasional red streeks. African Padouk is P. soyauxii which when freshly cut is a bright red but fades soon over time to a warm brown. Most padouks have a sweet pleasant smell when worked.
