Many years ago, when i worked at a rubber hose plant, we got a shipment of EPDM rubber from Brazil.  The 75 pound bales of rubber came in wooden crates.   Crates were made of a brown wood, 3" wide, with tongue and grooves to make the crates sides and top.     Crates were then just thrown out when empty.   Guess where a couple of those went?Wood had a light brown cast to it.  Grain was, for the most part, straight.    Splinters were long, thin, and kind of stringy.    Sanding didn't really smooth things out, but a piece of glass produced a nice smooth surface.   The weird part?     If you had a brush-load of stain in one hand, and a rag in the other, you could flood the wood with stain, and NOTHING would be on that rag.    5 minutes later, the wood would return to it's natural colour.     Now, put a coat of varnish on this brown wood, and like magic, a "mahogany" colour would appear!    The flat panels in these pictures is just 1/4" luann plywood.    All else is 3/4" thick "Brazil Wood".Been around the block for a few years,don't you think?    This is a shot of the doors.  Molding was made in the shop I had at the time.   This was made back in the mid 90s.    A view of the top.  all the boards were the same colour when glued up.   the bread board edge helped dress things up.    This wood does NOT warp, or even move.   Never did find out WHAT this wood is.  Just a "common" wood that is used in Brazil for crates.... 

 Some of these boards did have a fiddleback grain to them.     Glueing up was a dream!    Almost didn't need clamps!   Just rub the boards together with a coat of glue, and you were done.    If I could find out what they called this "Crate wood', I'd get a bunch more.     Never could stain the wood, but a coat of varnish brought out a deep redish orange colour.     Looked almost like the Mahogany of old.   Those crates also used some weird corner posts.     Red and yellow stripes, harder than Iron.    If you tried to nail them, they would either have the nail bounce off, or the board would just break apart.   Never tried to turn those corner posts, too hard for the lathe chisels I had.