Bloodwood is an exotic wood that comes from South America (Venezuela, Peru, Panama & Brazil) and is sometimes referred to as cardinal wood, for its obvious beautiful deep rose color. With age it's color does darken slightly. The wood is very dense with a tight fine, mostly linear grain making it difficult to stabilize.
While it is unusual for a tree to "bleed" when it is cut, the bloodwood trees' red sap is designed to coagulate and seal wounds just like human blood.
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