Also known as “Pau Ferro,” Bolivian Rosewood features a deep, chocolate brown tone interlaced with even darker brown or black growth lines. A dense wood native to Central and South America, it has a scent reminiscent of Walnut. The grain varies from straight to irregular. Specie Description: Bolivian Rosewood is an exotic wood with beautiful, rosewood like wood with black striping on top of a dark brown background. Bolivian Rosewood undergoes a substantial degree of color change as the wood lightens over time and more so in direct sunlight from the darker brown tones to lighter gold/tan tones with a muting the fresh milled color variation. Bolivian Rosewood offers a wide range of colors from medium to light browns through to almost black brown purplish tones, on top of which there is frequent black striping.