| Especially in terms of choice where pale classics such as hard maple, beech, oak and black cherry line up alongside fashionable dark timbers like iroko, jatoba, walnut, sucupira and wenge. |
| The bathroom is a lattice of mahogany and iroko wood for a warm comfort. |
| Calcium carbonate deposits occur in another form in Chlorophora excelsa, the source of iroko wood, which is very durable and practically immune to termites and wood-rotting fungi. |
| The few stretches of tropical forest that remain in Benin, mostly in the southwest and central areas, contain mahogany, iroko, teak, samba, and other tropical hardwoods. |
| Our stock timbers, which include oak, ash, sapele, iroko, beech, sycamore, yellow poplar and idigbo can be cut and machined to order. |
| The wood in about 3 percent of the trees carries streaks or lumps of calcium carbonate called iroko stones, which are hard enough to dull woodworking tools. |
