purple and white(petals) and green(leaves).
Lignum Vitae
lignum vitae
Lignum vitae. It is a tropical hardwood.
Lignum Vitae or to give it its correct name Guaiacum officina'le is a hard wood tree native to the West Indies and warmer areas of North America.
The Jamaican National Flower is Lignum Vitae (Guiacum Officinale).
beard fig tree
Lignum Vitae is the hardest, densest wood in the world specific gravity over 1.4. Black Ebony has a specific gravity from 1.0-1.3, both will sink in water. Ebony weighs about 70 pounds per cubic foot, and Lignum Vitae weighs over 85 pound per cubic foot
First things first: you probably don't have Lignum Vitae. It's an endangered species. There are three companies in the US that import this stuff and 100 percent of it goes to make bearings. There is another wood called Argentine Lignum Vitae, which you very well may have; it's not as hard as the real thing (which isn't saying much; real lignum vitae is harder than aluminum) but it's still incredibly hard, and vastly easier to get. And whether you have real or Argentine lignum vitae, gluing it is the same: clean off the surface oil with lacquer thinner, sand it with 220-grit paper, reclean it and glue it with epoxy.
Lignum Vitae is an very dense wood imported from Brazil. It can have a density as high as 1.39 g/cc.
Most likely either Guaiacum officinale or Guaiacum sanctum. Both are small, slow-growing trees which can be used to produce lignum vitae, and are listed as endangered species.
humming bird, lignum vitae tree, ackee
The name would be Guaiacum officinale. Family: Zygophyllaceae.