Coromandel wood

Coromandel wood or Calamander wood is type of wood from South East Asia mainly India and Sri Lanka.

It is extremely dense, which makes it heavy and hard and also slow growing. Its of a hazel-brown colour with black stripes. It has now been logged to extinction over the last two to three hundred years so there is no new wood available. Its rarity has made it very valuable.

A substitute wood which looks very similar is Makassar Ebony which is endemic to Indonesia. This too has become very scarce due to the region of growth having become very restricted.