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Blackheart Sassafras

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Blackheart Sassafras Botanical Name: Atherosperma Moschatum 

Of all Tasmanian timbers, sassafras has the most variable and dynamic colouring. It is a beautiful and pale creamy grey to white normally but can be streaked with rich browns and black heart. So, it is available in two major groupings; Golden sassafras and Blackheart sassafras. Finishing to a grey and golden tone, golden sassafras is particularly attractive as a veneer or as a solid timber with knots providing figure. If the tree is infected with a staining fungus it produces Blackheart sassafras. Blackheart is a timber with distinctive dark brown, black, and even green streaks running through the wood. While the wood is light and strong, it is rather soft and easily worked.  Sassafras is a component of wet eucalypt forest and young rain forest where it may live for  150 - 200 years. A strikingly dramatic Australian timber with a cream-colored sapwood and wild reddish brown heartwood. Light strong and easily worked.Bends easily with little to no springback.