caesalpinia echinata การใช้

The timber is sometimes traded as " Brazilwood ", which properly refers to the unrelated Pernambuco tree ( " Caesalpinia echinata " ).
The Breadnut ( " snakewood, has a mottled snake-skin pattern, and is among the densest woods, with a very high stiffness; it was the wood of choice for making of bows for musical instruments of the violin family until the late 18th century, when it was replaced by the more easily worked brazilwood ( " Caesalpinia echinata " ).
After European arrival, the land's major export was a type of tree the traders and colonists called " pau-Brasil " ( Latin for wood red like an ember ) or brazilwood from whence the country got its name, a large tree ( " Caesalpinia echinata " ) whose trunk yields a prized red dye, and which was nearly wiped out as a result of overexploitation.