The growing region for Makore is from Western Africa, Ivory Coast, Ghana, and Nigeria down through Congo, Gabon and Cameron.

Logs yield beautiful grain patterns and figure types depending on how they are sliced.  They can be flat sliced, quarter sliced and rotary sliced depending on the figure and how you want to accentuate it.

This particular log developed an unusual type of grain pattern and underlying figure.   Vines are known to attach themselves to many tropical species as they grow, causing interesting phenomena such as this.