MOKUREI COLLECTION / ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHMOKUREI STUDIO / SPECIMEN 024
Pink Ivory
Phyllogeiton zeyheri (syn. Berchemia zeyheri)
From shell-pink to saturated coral and deep crimson heartwood.
- Botanical family
- Rhamnaceae
- Average dry density
- 1,035 kg/m³ (≈12% MC)
- Janka hardness
- 3,230 lbf
- Native distribution
- Southern Africa
- Grain & texture
- Fine, straight to interlocked
Original photograph © Mokurei Studio · physical timber held in the studio collection. Identification supplied by the studio; reference properties are not individual sample measurements.
Material character
A hard, dense small-object timber with a distinctive natural palette.
Notable applications
Turned objects, luxury handles, jewellery and fine inlay.
Of particular interest
The intensity of its famous pink colour differs substantially from one specimen to another.
Workshop note
Protect from long periods of strong sunlight to moderate colour shift.
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.