| Trade Names: | Wenge |
| Origin: | Africa. |
| Range: | West Africa, Gabon, Cameroon, Congo, Zaire. |
| Uses: | Valuable veneer wood. Architectural wood for furniture, paneling and parquet flooring, construction lumber. Primarily used for the quarter grain. |
| Properties: | The heartwood is a dark chocolate brown and has to be intensively cooked and sliced hot. Most resistant to fungi, insect attack and the weather. |
| Machining: | Despite its hardness Wenge can still be worked well with all tools but this calls for considerable power. |
| Seasoning: | Drying is very slow and only when properly controlled is there little risk of dry checking. Stability is very good in dried state. |
