In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1:1)

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed,
and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind,
whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed
after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself,
after his kind: and God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:11-12)

Wenge 鸂鶒木(雞翅木)
Millettia laurentii

Some informative/botanical links on timber:

1. Plant Explorer
2. forestworld
3. Woods of the World CD
4. Woods of the World Online (free membership)
5. Woods of the World Featured Wood
6. The Wood Exchange.info/
7. Botany 115 Economically Important Plant Families
8. Eximcorp - Species of Wood List
9. Rare Woods, home to the widest range of
   local and exotic timbers available in Africa
10. Chinese Woods Page 1
11. Chinese Woods Page 2
12. Chinese Woods Page 3
13. Chinese Woods Page 4
14. BoDD - the Botanical Dermatology Database
15. Botanical.com Home Page
16. Ethnobotany of Malaysian Plants
17. Index of /botanical/mgmh
18. Plants in the Bible
19. African Hardwoods Market
20. East African Hardwoods
21. Nautical Research Guild, Inc. - Woods for Modelbuilding
22. The Freeman Corporation: N. American & Rare or Exotic Wood Veneer
23. 網路講座 - 骨董家具木料概說 (Rare timbers - Chinese site)
24. 詮釋紫檀之謎 - 顧永琦(簡體字) (Padauk - Simplified Chinese)
25. 明代家具的用材(簡體字) (Rosewood & Wenge - Simplified Chinese)
26. 恆春熱帶植物園植物名錄
    Taiwan Forestry Research Institute - Plant List (Chinese)

Special thanks to my former colleague,

Mr Henry Tak-kit FUNG,

my dearest mentor in Wood and master in Carpentry,

without whom this page will never have even been conceived!

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