Description

Azobe is a coarse textured wood with a very tight interlocked grain that not only The azobe is differentiated, with thin sapwood (the outer part of the trunk is pink or brownish) and heartwood inner part of the trunk from red-brown to purplish). It has a strong, coarse texture and its thick, frequently interlocked fibres characterise it and stress its great strength making pressurized preservative treatment unnecessary and virtually impossible. Azobe offers resistance to natural enemies of other woods. it should be noted that whitish deposits form in the large vessels (particularly on the borderline between the sapwood and the heartwood), highlighting and intensifying its hardness.

Azobe is said to be the hardest industrially used wood in the world.