Dalbergia spp. of the family Fabaceae. There are so many different rosewoods that it's hard to keep track of them, and without any identification other than "rosewood" it can be impossible to figure out which one it is. This section holds otherwise unidentified rosewoods and also more obscure varities that I don't have enough pictures of to make yet another rosewood page.
In some cases, the distinction may even be pointless since the specific rosewood name used is just a "country of origin/distribution" for a more generic form of rosewood that is how it really should be identified. I'll clean this page up at some point ... Maybe :-)
Laos rosewood (Dalbergia cochinensis) sample plank and end grain
end grain closeup of the piece directly above
Indonesian rosewood (just given as Dalbergia spp.) sample plank and end grain
end grain closeup of the piece directly above
both sides of a sample plank listed as Honduran rosewood / Dalbergia tucurensis, BUT ... I believe that is incorrect and it SHOULD be labled Guatamalan rosewood / Dalbergia tucurensis (Honduran rosewood is Dalbergia stevensonii as is so listed on this site).
end grain and end grain closeup of the piece directly above
This sheet of San Dominican rosewood veneer was loaned to me by John Koehn whom I thank for this and other contributions to the site.
quartersawn veneer, meaninglessly (see comments with web pics below) named "Nigerian rosewood"
web pics
listed as "andes" rosewood
"Aztec" rosewood
plank listed as Aztec rosewood / Dalbergia tucerensis
bois de rose (I think this is a common name for another rosewood, so I'll move it eventually)
Borneo rosewood turning block, waxed
Burmese rosewood turning block, waxed
Burmese rosewood guitar set
plank listed as Burma rosewood / Dalberga cultrata
Myanmar (= Burma) rosewood veneer
Cambodian rosewood planks. I'm not sure about the bright orange color on a couple of these
Cambodian rosewood from the BogusColorVendor so the color is suspect
Caribbean rosewood, but it's from the BogusColorVendor so the color is highly suspect
"Central American" rosewood
"curatinga"
listed variously as "san domingan", "san domingo", and "santo domingo"
guatemalan
Indonesian
malagasy --- alert correspondant Allan Philip has pointed out that "Malagasy" is just what the natives of Madagascar call themselves, so "malagasy" rosewood is madagascar rosewood. I will move these pics to that page at some point
New Guinea rosewood plank
"New Guinea" rosewood veneer
Nicaraguan
"Nigerian rosewood" veneer, all from the same vendor who, as far as I can tell, is the only vendor in the world to use this designation and she has no idea what the wood is. I consider the designation to be meaningless. The wood looks a little like teak and a little like cerejeira, but I don't know what it is. When I bought some of this from the vendor whose pics these are, she gave me the name of the wholesaler who sold it to her but they did not reply to my emails. The colors are accurate, but as usual with this vendor, the pics have a shine that is not at all present in the wood. Whatever it is, it sure is pretty.
ocelot ear
palisander (actually, I think that's just Spanish for rosewood, so this needs further clarification)
palisander rosewood guitar set
palo oleo
Panamanian
Panamanian rosewood planks and a closeup ... pics provided by Neal Kuwabara ... thanks Neal
figured Panamanian rosewood
rio rosewood veneer
Siam, flat cut and quartersawn
listed as "South American rosewood" --- I have no idea what it is.
scales identified only as rosewood --- looks to me like Bolivian rosewood.
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