"African rosewood" literally means rosewood produced in Africa, that is, hedgehog rosewood in the national standard of mahogany. However, merchants like to exploit the loopholes in the text. They call African wood that does not belong to rosewood, such as Angus rosewood, African rosewood and other Asian rosewood and grass pears, also called "African rosewood" or "African rosewood". These African-Asian pears and grass pears are not as good as rosewood in wood properties and can't meet the national standards of mahogany, so they are not in the category of mahogany. They entered the timber market under the signboard of "African rosewood", and the sham as the genuine. Furniture factories use these Woods to make furniture, so there is "African rosewood" furniture ("African rosewood" refers to furniture made of Asian rosewood and grass rosewood). A large number of "African rosewood" furniture flooded the market, which had a bad influence on the real rosewood furniture and led many people to misunderstand the quality of rosewood furniture. In layman's view, there is no difference between "African rosewood" furniture and real rosewood furniture, or "African rosewood" furniture is rosewood furniture, which virtually locates rosewood furniture at the low-end level. Only those who have a deep understanding of mahogany furniture know that real mahogany furniture is much superior to "African rosewood" furniture.
Simply put, the difference between "African rosewood" and "hedgehog rosewood" is that hedgehog rosewood is a real rosewood, but "African rosewood" is not necessarily rosewood, but most of them are Asian rosewood and grass rosewood, not mahogany. This is the essential difference between "African rosewood" and hedgehog rosewood. Therefore, the "African rosewood" mentioned by merchants may be mahogany hedgehog rosewood, or it may be non-mahogany wood such as African Asian rosewood and grass rosewood. Everyone should be vigilant.