What species of wood are best known for blue coloring? Chuck
Blue Colored Wood
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Blue Mahoe is the only thing that comes to mind.
and it is not really blue at least i never got any that I thought was
Elder burl has grey blue
nature really produces very few if any blue flowers- no reason for her to make blue wood...
blue pine
Blue raspberry snow-cone spilt on holly wood....
research blue stain spalting
i have seen burl pieces of chamise Adenostoma fasciculatum
with high levels of blue
i have seen burl pieces of chamise Adenostoma fasciculatum
with high levels of blue
cross section of root
another
that last one also has pink stain spalting
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As others have said, there is no blue wood other than blue stain or "rainbow" poplar that might have some blue areas in the mineral stain and that doesn't last. "Blue" mahoe only rarely shows any blue at all and that doesn't last.
Green is another color that is rare, but not as bad as blue. Verawood and mineral stained poplar come to mind for green.
I DID once have a piece of amazing green poplar (mineral stain) where the color lasted for a long time
Here's a bowl made from it. It sat on a shelf in my basement (no sunlight) for months before being sold.
Sorry ... I got carried away thinking about rare wood colors and wandered off track from the original question about blue wood.
Green is another color that is rare, but not as bad as blue. Verawood and mineral stained poplar come to mind for green.
I DID once have a piece of amazing green poplar (mineral stain) where the color lasted for a long time
Here's a bowl made from it. It sat on a shelf in my basement (no sunlight) for months before being sold.
Sorry ... I got carried away thinking about rare wood colors and wandered off track from the original question about blue wood.