Chinese name: Stuya Laurentii

Scientific name: Millettia Laurentii

Trade name: Wenge Millettia

Burmese chicken wing wood

Chinese name: Millettia Leucantha

Scientific name: Millettia Leucantha

Commercial name: Thinwin Leucantha

Tiedaomu: Cassia siamca

Scientific name: Cassia siamca

Commercial name: siamese Cassia siamca is also a chicken wing tree, mainly produced in China

Cassia siamca is called "old" by northerners "Elm", the common ones include Northeastern old elm and Jiangxi old elm.

Wenge wood is a tree species of the genus Erythium spp. and Trichosanthes spp., which is produced in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Fujian, China, as well as in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa and other places.

Some of the wood of chicken wing wood is white and black, and some are yellow and purple in color. The slant sawn wood grain is in the shape of fine flower clouds, which resembles chicken wings. Especially in the longitudinal section, the wood grain is slender and floating, with endless changes, naturally forming patterns of landscapes and figures. Chicken wing wood is produced less than rosewood, rosewood and other woods, and its wood texture is unique. Therefore, it is cherished by the world for its small quantity and beautiful and gorgeous charm.

Wenge wood is a type of mahogany with a chicken-wing ("V" shape) pattern on the chord section of the wood's heartwood. Wenge wood is famous for its distinctive and unique texture, and has always been loved by literati and consumers. Wenge wood is easy to distinguish from other types of mahogany, but in the actual market, wenge wood is a mixed bag of good and bad, and its authenticity is difficult to distinguish. Old furniture is called old chicken wing wood, new chicken wing wood, and acacia wood. Mahogany furniture is also divided into Burmese chicken wing wood and African chicken wing wood. How do we tell the difference?

Wenge wood texture

Wenge wood texture

There are old and new wenge wood in the old furniture market. Mr. Wang Shixiang divided it into: old chicken wing wood "has a dense texture, with alternating purple and brown lines, especially the longitudinal and slightly oblique section, which is slender and floating, giving people the feeling of bright and shining feathers." New chicken wing wood has "rough wood, Purple and black, the texture is often turbid, stiff and has no tendency to rotate, and the wood fibers are sometimes prone to cracking. ”