BOTRA

Botanical name: Khaya Ivorensis
Origin: West Africa

The term Crotch comes from where a limb separates from the main trunk of the tree or the trunk splits. Its outer grain tends to have a feather like appearance and is typically used in the reverse of the way it actually grows.

There is a big variety of crotch plates from swirl to hard curl.

Complete plate description can be found in Thompson Mahogany plate book edited by Mahogany association, Inc. in 1956.

Botanical name: Aucoumea Klaineana
Origin: Gaboon, Guinea

Heartwood is salmon pink to light pinkish brown. The grain of Okoume is shallowly interlocked, sometimes wavy, and its texture medium. Okoume wood is often lustrous. Crotch flame is very expressive with 3 dimensional appearance.

Botanical name: Amburana Cearensis
Origin: South America

Heartwood is yellow to brownish colour with or without contrast stripes.

Botanical name: Juglans regia
Origin: Europe, Asia

Walnut crotch is created where a branch intersects with a tree's trunk and/or when there is a double trunk. Wood fibers weave together to strengthen the limbs or branch involved forming the crotch and feather appearance.

Nom botanique : Juglans hindsii
Zones de production : California in USA

Also called California walnut, this is a true member of the walnut family with more color, grain accent, and overall beauty than most other walnuts --- it is frequently an exceptionally beautiful wood. Crotches are especially prized for high-end furniture and gun stocks because of the beauty of the wood combined with an exceptionally high ability to withstand recoil shock.