Bryan Tyler Nelson		BLACK LIMBA
	BLACK LIMBA - (Terminalia superba) There are really three kinds of limba as far as color is concerned. First there is the "normal" tree, in which the sapwood is off-white, sometimes yellowish or even pale brown and the heartwood is similarly colored and not clearly differentiated from the sapwood. The other two types of limba are virtually indistinguishable although sometimes the heartwood will be darker brown. The sapwood of this version is "white limba" and so is the heartwood. Then there is the third limba, which is the somewhat more rare heartwood which has varying degrees of irregular black streaking, and THAT is what is meant by "black limba". So in terms of TREES, there is no such thing as white or black limba --- these are terms that are used to distinguish between color/figure variations.   Limba comes from Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Togo, Zaire.
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