The ebony grows in great perfection and large quantity.

This tree is at once distinguished from the surrounding stems by its smaller diameter and its sooty trunk.

The bark is crisp, jet black, and has the appearance of being charred.

Beneath the bark the wood is perfectly white until the heart is reached, which is the fine black ebony of commerce.

Here also, equally immovable, the calamander is growing, neglected and unknown.