Merbau

When freshly cut, the heartwood of merbau is a yellowish to orange-brown color, but then darkens to brown or red-brown.
The grain of this coarse-textured wood varies from straight to interlocked or wavy.
One of the distinctive properties of this wood is that the surface of the boards may have yellow “flecking” in the pores;
thus, when finished, the wood may appear almost flecked with gold.