Scientific Name: Millettia Stuhlmannii
Family: Leguminosae (legume)
Other names: Panga-Panga, Jambire, Messara, Mpande, Awoung
Distribution: East Africa
The wood: Heartwood dark brown to almost black with alternate layers of light and dark tissue forming a decorative figure; sapwood yellowish white, clearly demarcated. Texture rather coarse; grain straight. It weighs 800-870 kg/m3 with a 12% humidity.
Seasoning: It seasons well and rather rapidly with little degrade
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