MOKUREI COLLECTION / ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHMOKUREI STUDIO / SPECIMEN 023
Peroba Rosa
Aspidosperma polyneuron
Dusky pink to reddish-brown heartwood, occasionally marbled or streaked.
- Botanical family
- Apocynaceae
- Average dry density
- 775 kg/m³ (≈12% MC)
- Janka hardness
- 1,730 lbf
- Native distribution
- Brazil, Paraguay and northern Argentina
- Grain & texture
- Fine, usually straight, occasionally interlocked
Original photograph © Mokurei Studio · timber held in the studio collection. Identification supplied by the studio; physical-property values are literature references, not measurements of the pictured piece.
Material character
Fine-textured hardwood renowned in historical Brazilian joinery.
Notable applications
Furniture, floors, decorative veneer and architectural woodwork.
Of particular interest
Some peroba samples show yellow-green fluorescence under ultraviolet illumination.
Workshop note
The name Peroba can be applied to unrelated woods; the epithet rosa is important.
Wood identification is provided by the Mokurei Studio collection, not independently laboratory-verified. Technical figures are reference averages, not measurements of the photographed piece; they vary with provenance and moisture.