06/05/2024
This is a Brazilian Pau tree, a tree that grows in the American Atlantic forests in the South.
The characteristic reddish color of the Pau of Brazil comes from the iron oxide particles that it extracts and that turns it into an incorruptible wood, therefore it was the objective of all the navies and sailors in those lands for their ships damaged by the joke ( Teredinidae, a marine worm). Thus they have practically driven it to extinction.
It is one of the hardest and densest woods in the world (there are two that surpass it) and it has a color when cut that is close to fuchsia but with oxidation, it turns dark brown over time.
