{"id":898,"date":"2015-03-27T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodturningpens.com\/?p=898"},"modified":"2015-03-27T12:00:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T16:00:53","slug":"weeping-boer-bean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodturningpens.com\/weeping-boer-bean\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeping Boer Bean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Once again I will reference two small pen blank sized pieces of wood purchased some time ago from Woodcraft <\/a>that were part of a set of 32 pieces, comprising 16 different types, of African woods<\/a>. Included in the set were two pieces of a wood I had certainly never heard of, Weeping Boer Bean. Turns out that Weeping Boer Bean is one of the common names for the tree botanically known as Schotia brachypetala<\/em>. Two other common names are Tree fuchsia and African walnut. And it is with that second common name that the potential for confusion and mis-identification creeps in. Wood workers are more likely to use the common term African Walnut to refer to the tree and wood botanically known as Lovoa<\/em> trichilioides<\/em> which is native to western Africa whereas the Weeping Boer Bean, as the name implies, is a native of southern Africa. Neither tree, by the way, is in any way related to the true walnut trees of the various species within the Juglans<\/em> genus.<\/p>\n