European walnut (Juglans regia) grows in nearly whole middle- and southeast Europe, although beautiful figured walnut is a rather scarce wood: only about 5-10 percent of the mature trees have the typical dark brown heartwood with black streaks, that is priced very high- often as high as exotic tropical woods.
Walnut heartwood varies from greyish to dark chocolate brown colour with swirls, almost black dark wavy streaks form an impressive figure. It polishes excellent. having high natural durability. European walnut is very limited in availability.
