Ebiara (Red Zebra)

Ebiara (berlinia grandiflora) is also known as Red Zebrawood, berlinia, aben, poculi, and essaben. This exotic hardwood comes mostly from West African countries such as Cameroon, Gabon, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Congo and Zaire where the tress can be found growing up to 130 feet tall and with trunk diameters up to 48 inches. Ebiara has a whitish pink sapwood with a heartwood color that ranges from red to brown and purplish brown streaks throughout. When quartersawn this timber resembles its close relative Zebrawood the only difference is Ebiara is red. Ebiara will often have some small voids in the wood. It does not seem to weaken the wood but will need to be filled.