the Tree in height reaches 25 metres at diameter of a trunk to 0,8 metres. Grows in a wild kind in Brazil (area of Amazon), Panama, Guiana, Surinam and some other places of the South America. Population is limited.
Colour of mature wood on a fresh cut krasnovato-grey with dark proveins. Having stood some time for air, amaranth wood accepts colour from purpurno - pink to beet and violet. While in service on light gradually darkens. Because of characteristic colour an amaranth quite often name «a violet tree», as has received reflexion in variants of its German and English of names.
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Colour of mature wood
