Fine and ultra fine texture is for carving small fittings and delicate parts. Texture is also uniform or uneven. An uneven textured wood has different size cell cavities giving the wood hard and soft spots. When machining or carving a piece and it suddenly breaks, it is because you hit a large cell cavity or a soft spot. Uniform texture is like cutting a soft plastic like material.
Color is a pale whitish yellow to a light honey color.
Heartwood has a slight brown to pink tint. Moderately hard, stiff and strong, will resist splitting. A stable wood in use. Machines to a highly lustrous surface. It also can used for trim work and deck furniture.