Brazilian Blackheart

Family: Fabaceae - Order: Fabales - Class: Magnoliopsida
Scientific name: Zollernia Paraensis
Trade name: Brazilian Blackheart, Pau Santo
Also known as Pau-Santo-do-Pará, Coração-de-negro, Muirapinima-preta, Brazilian blackheart

Origin: Brazil

Instrumental uses: Guitar back and sides, fingerboards, bridges, peg heads, head plates and inlays.
Tonal properties:

Very responsive and loud taptone. Ultra bright highs with an overall dense sound.

Can be easy to work, slightly hard to bend but finishes extraordinary well.

It is a very dense exotic wood with average dried weight 70 lbs/ft³ (1,115 kg/m3)

Grows in Brazil, in Para, Maranhão, Paraíba, Pernambuco and Mato Grosso States.

Usually reaches the height of 20 m, having the trunk rectilinear with thin dark branches.

The  heartwood color is from green yellowish to dark brow and very black. The Sapwood is white and also very hard. The texture is very similar to Lignum Vitae and is a difficult wood to find. Very stiff and is also very resistant to decay and insects.

CITES status is unrestricted. On The IUCN reported as being a specie of least concern.