Description: Part of the Acer family,a cross between the Oriental and American plane,generally resembles beech being fawn in colour,hard and strong,easily worked in any direction.

Origin: Southern France and Spain.

Uses: Not naturally durable out of doors,makes high class furniture or wood carvings.Can also be known as “lacewood”,but only when quarter sawn or made into vaneer,to reveal the familiar spotty pith ray pattern.