I bought a table when I was overseas about 15 years ago. I never knew but assumed it came from Asia somewhere. The top was a single slab, 60x36x4″. We changed our decor recently and the table became surplus. So I had it resawn into two 2” slabs and then made a smaller table top out of part of the wood, picture below. At the same time, I sent a sample in to the wood identification service. They identified the wood as Albizia. Wikipedia says that this genus covers 160 species.
Can anyone provide some clues on what type of wood I have? Narrowing it down to 160 species doesn’t help much.
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It looks like Monkey-pod, which in older references is Albizia samen a member of the Fabaceae or Leguminosae group. Older Monkey-pod has darker heartwood that can look almost like walnut to dark chocolate brown with lighter reddish brown. I am pretty sure its Monkey-pod as shown in the photo.
I strongly suggest looking at the wood database.
https://www.wood-database.com/wood-filter/
Monkeypod is a South American wood
Albiza ferruginea is an African wood, not the same.
Hi. That database is good, but not comprehensive. Although originally more or less from South America, Monkey-pod was migrated to the Guam, etc in the 16th century and Hawaii in the early 19th century. Older heart wood does look very similar to Walnut so this seems to look like that from the photo. Always fun to try to ID wood.