In the USA, Pau Amerello is very commonly referred to by the name "yellowheart".
my samples --- colors are accurate throughout but with several caveats noted due to the difficulty in getting yellow wood to come out right on a digital camera
plank with sapwood
small piece and end grain. This is only rough sanded and if it were fine sanded it would be almost exactly as rich a yellow as the oiled sample directly below (not a huge difference, but some).
end grain closeup of the piece directly above
small piece cut from the same plank as the sample above and then oiled. As you can see, the oil only slightly enhances the color.
plank and end grain; this piece has been sitting around for many years but most of the darker coloring was present when I bought it, so it may have darkened a little with age, but not all that much. The small plank directly below, for example, was put away in my wood sample box at about the same time as this piece, and it is still much lighter. At any rate, asided from the knothole, this is a terrific piece of pau amerello and I wish it was all this nice deep golden color, but it's not. Many pieces are a very pale yellow, as you can see on the end-grain shots a few pics down from here.
end grain closeup of the piece directly above
plank and end grain sold to me as pau amarelo / Euxylophora paraensis
end grain closeup of the piece directly above
end grain of a couple of other planks --- the pale color is accurate, although not all yellowheart is this pale.
plank and closeup --- I bought this particular piece because of the ray flakes, which I'm not accustomed to seeing in yellowheart --- the color is a little too orange.
one section, and a closeup, of a long plank
another section, with closeup, of the same plank as directly above --- as almost always with yellow wood, I had difficulty in the color correction and the pics in this case are just a little more golden than the wood, which is a bright yellow, much like what you get in a box of crayons.
a small turning stick, which I bought as "yellowheart" and which seemed at first to be different than pau amerello. This seemed at first to have a much less distinct grain pattern that pau amerello, but you can see that the end grain is identical. It's actually about the same color as the sticks directly below, although it is from a different lot. These sticks were all bought as "yellowheart"
The color on the set of "yellowheart" sticks is close but not quite accurate since it has a little too much gold in it. The true color is a cross between the too-pale of the stick directly above and the too-gold of this pic. One of these sticks in use can be seen in a turned bowl at the bottom of this page.
planks with the pic color not quite as yellow as the wood
plank
end grain and end grain closeup of the piece directly above
face grain closeup of the piece directly above showing the ribbon stripe and the ray flakes. The color is a little too orange and not yellow enough. The color in the plank pic is correct.
plank and closeup
planks and closeup
planks and closeup
plank
closeup of a little piece with blue stain
plank
bowl blank
veneer
fiddleback veneer sheets and a closeup
fiddleback veneer
web pics --- some of these were listed as pau amerello and some as yellowheart and I don't trust the colors on any of them
planks
plank and closeup
figured planks
planks, all from the same vendor --- this is the vendor I bought most of my own samples from and these shots are pics of some of the planks I bought; many of the planks are more yellow than he shows in his pics
plank from a vendor whom I know to badly mis-color his pics
plank and closeup
plank and closeup
boths side of a plank and a closeup
listed as "ribbon stripe", but I just don't see it.
bowl
pau amerello used in a turned bowl (2 pics of same bowl) --- this piece of wood was taken from one of the "yellowheart" sticks shown in my own samples at the top of this page. The more golden color of the shot on the right is an effect of the particular angle of view. As is true of most woods, this wood, particlularly after a finishing agent has been applied, changes color somewhat with the viewing angle.
