Zebrawood is an exotic and imported hardwood is pale golden brown to pinkish-brown with pronounced dark brown streaks giving the quartered surfaces a zebra-stripe appearance. The interlocked grain of this wood, like that of many tropical woods, can make it difficult to work.. Zebrawood is almost always quartersawn to get the exciting alternating color pattern.This wood has a coarse texture and lustrous surface. Zebrawood is heavy, hard and strong. 
   Zebrawood is imported from Central Africa, (Gabon, Cameroon, and Congo). Zebrawood can also be a pale brown with regular or irregular marks of dark brown in varying widths.