Exotic Wood cerejeira

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CEREJEIRA

Amburana cearensis
Amburana cearensis (syn. Torresea cearensis) of the family Leguminosae, subfamily Papilionoideae, the legume or pea family

a South American wood also known as amburana, cerejeirafla, cumaru, and honeywood

My thanks to Paul van Rijckevorsel for this summary

my samples:

a correspondant sent me these pics with the request that I help determine whether or not they are in fact cerejeira, since the colors of the red and white ones are outside his experience of cerejeira. They are outside my experience as well, and I was not much help, but he later determined (not absolutely, but pretty definitely based on weight, smell, grain, and vendor reliability) that they are in fact cerejeira. In the first pic, the right-most piece is pretty clearly "normal" cerejeira (wheat-colored). The end grain on the red piece looks a lot like certain cuts of bubinga, but the side grain makes it clear that this is not bubinga, and the weight is also completely wrong for bubinga.

one end of a huge cerejeira sheet sent to me by Wade Whitbeck. Thanks, Wade. The color on these pics is just a tad richer than the actualy wood, but it is still more accurate than any of my other veneer samples below, where the yellow color defeated my earlier efforts at color correction.

a long veneer piece and a closeup of same --- the yellow color in the distance pic is exaggerated, but the closeup pic is too dull. The actual wood is somewhere in between the two. This was sold to me a "golden" cerejeira.

rift cut veneer --- although not sold as "golden", it has a more golden color than the sheets above which WERE sold as "golden", SO ... I get the feeling that "golden" is just a designation that some vendor stuck on as a marketing ploy. These pics do not have as much yellow as the wood.

flat cut veneer with cathedral grain. The first 3 pics are too red --- the actual wood has more yellow, like the last two pics.

flat cut veneer sheet and closeup --- the closeup pic is too dark

flat cut veneer and closeup. These pics are too pink and do not have as much yellow as the wood.

the web pics posted by the vendor who sold me the lot that many of my veneer pics came from --- note the significant color difference between the 2 pics, and that NEITHER of them is very close to the actual wood color