Resource Asia Hawaii. It is a tropical hardwood which is deemed a heavy hardwood.
Sapwood is moderately well defined and lighter in colour than heartwood.
The colour of freshly cut heartwood is yellow-brown, or brown with reddish tinge, weathering ultimately to a deeper shade of brown or reddish dark brown. Planed surface is not particularly lustrous but is by no means dull. Resin canals usually with white contents, occur characteristically in concentric lines on the end surface but the wood is not resinous.