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Thread #106127   Message #2190046
Posted By: Bill D
09-Nov-07 - 03:16 PM
Thread Name: Brazilian rosewood bust
Subject: RE: Brazilian rosewood bust
"Bolivian rosewood grows at fantastic altitudes in the dense foliage of the southern Brazilian/Bolivian border."

except that this is one of those botanical confusions caused by dealers wanting to associate some wood in folks minds with Rosewood.

There IS almost no genuine Rosewood of any kind in Bolivia....except in tiny areas down near the border in LOW areas. The wood they refer to as Bolivian Rosewood is Machaerium scleroxylon, most commonly called Morado.

Dealers want well-known, familar names when they try to sell stuff, and they'll invent a name on the spot if they don't like the common name.