Anigre
Botanical Name: (Aningeria altissima)
Anigre looks like Butternut with a figure like curly maple,and sounds like the best Mahogany you have ever heard.Unwetted wood has a color very similar to maple. Bends readily no pores to fill. Finishes beautifully. A great tonewood.
About the wood: An African hardwood, Aningeria is most commonly called anigre or anegre. The wood is creamy in color, has a natural luster and a cedar-like scent. The heartwood is a yellow white, pale tan or pink brown. The wood darkens in color after exposure to light. It most often has a straight grain, but the grain can also appear to be wavy. Figured Anigre ranges from a fiddleback to a broader fiddleback or curly figure and also a block mottled look.