The Atlas
Tonewood Atlas is a live index of what the boutique acoustic world has on its shelves right now, gathered from independent dealers and normalised into one vocabulary. This page is the key to how we read wood — every classification choice, shown.
2,978 listings · 186 dealer codes · 88 species · 21 families, live today
The Wood Key
Dalbergia maritima, from eastern Madagascar; a vivid magenta to reddish purple with darker violet-black streaks, darkening with age toward deep purple or near black — and the name collides, since “bois de rose” is also used for Aniba rosaeodora, the South American tree distilled for rosewood oil, and for Dalbergia decipularis, Brazilian tulipwood.
Where it sits
declared for backs and sides — none in stock today
none in stock today
How dealers write it
Bois de Rose
How it files
CITES Appendix IItrade controlled · as of 2026-08-09
Read from Commission Regulation (EU) 2026/1383, cross-checked against the USDA APHIS CITES Timber Species Manual — the document. We do not give legal advice and have not checked any individual instrument’s paperwork: this species carries this status on this date. Ask the dealer about documentation.
