10. African Blackwood
African
Blackwood is known as a flowering plant which has a family Barefaced. It occurs to the seasonally dry regions of the Africa from the Senegal east to the Eritrea and also the south to Transvaal in the South Africa. It is mostly used for a musical instrument. It is a tiny tree having leaves which are deciduous in the dry season with gray bark and spiny shoots. According to recent reports African Blackwood native range are threatened because of no specific rules are involved in harvesting the plant while low germination rates were also becoming the reason of its lower population all around the globe.
9. Sandalwood
Most expensive woods also include Sandalwood. It is a class of the fragrant woods from the trees in genus Santalum. Sandalwood is thick, yellow, and fine-grained which retain their fragrance for decades as compared to others aromatic woods. As well as also using harvested and the cut wood in-situ, the essential oils are extracted from woods for use. Many oils are derived from Sandalwood and needed for perfumes make it expensive and valuable.
8. Agarwood
Most expensive wood includes Agarwood is known as dark resinous heartwood that comes from
Aquilaria tree. It has a history of 3000 years in China, Middle East and Japan. It is light and pale colored wood before infection but as infection progress it produces a dark aromatic resin which has high value due to its unique fragrance, so it is used for perfumes. Pure oil is extracted from agarwood which is also one of unique and high range product because of purity which demand is growing rapidly with the passage of time. It is also called Eaglewood, Gaharu, and Aloeswood. It is most valuable wood for trading internationally. This species has been extinct due to a threat of forest exploitation.
7. Ebony
Most expensive
Ebony wood is also known as Black Timber belongs to the genus Diospyros yielded by several species of this genus. It has a high density which is more than enough to sink it into water. It has good texture, and you will make it more smooth and by polishing make it a more valuable and ornamental wood. Ebony has a long history of use because it has been involved in luxury trade from one region to other. Now its use is restricted to make guitar picks, black piano and the harpsichord keys, the violin, the viola, guitar, the double bass, and the cello fingerboards, the tailpieces, the pegs, the chinrests, and the bow frogs. This wood has the high quantity of oil, so it ‘s hard to glue. Ebony is insect resistant wood and durable if you want to make long-lasting furniture you should use this wood. Many species are threatened now following unsustainable harvesting while illegal indigenous ebony cut down is another danger to the most valuable timber. Its price is $10000 /Kg.
6. Pink Ivory
Pink Ivory is also known as the Red Ivory, purple ivory, the UmNini or the logotype. This rare African hardwood is used for making many variety products such as Billiard cues and Knife handles.It dominates Zimbabwe, the Mozambique, and South Africa.Pink Ivory is extremely hard wood has density f 990g/dm3. Pink Ivory is a Royal tree and only possessed royal families. Tree of Pink Ivory also produces reddish, yellowish, brownish or purplish drop fruit which is very delicious. Some parts of Pink Ivory is used for medicinal purposes.Price f Pink Ivory is $7-8 /Board Feet. It is said that it is rarer than diamonds. You can polish this wood as you want which make it more fine and coatings give the advantage to block UV light because sunlight destroys and darken the wood.
5. Lignum Vitae
Any tree with wood name Lignum Vitae means” Tree of Life” It is a slow growing tree and looks like a shrub. The trade wood comes from the genus Guaiacum Lignum, and it is native to the Caribbean and the northern coast of South America this place considered an important export crop in Europe since the 16th century.It is a small tree which grows only 2 inches in a year. Two other small and slow growing trees Hollywood Lignum –Vitae and Roughbark
Lignum-Vitae also yield some valuable Lignum Vitae wood. Qualities which make it in demand and expensive is an extraordinary strength, toughness, and density .it has worth $5/Pound. It is thick timber and used for Cricket Bails during windy condition. The name wood of life assigned to this tree due to its medicinal qualities. The national tree of the Bahamas and the Jamaican national flower adds some exclusiveness to the wood that is being highly price in its native region following its massive export.
4. Purple Heart
Purple Heart is a genus of 13 different species native to tropical regions of Central and South America. It is also known as Amaranth and violet wood commonly found in America, Brazil, and Mexico. It is the hardest and stiffest wood in the world. Its price is $11.99 per Board/Feet.This wood is very durable, and water resistant and this quality make it more expensive.Its color is purple-brown when it cut and becomes deeper eggplant purple when it dry, with the passage of time its color becomes darker brown with a faint shade of purple. Purple Heart wood is used for making furniture, boat building, flooring, heavy construction, and in highlight pieces.
3. Dalbergia
A large genus of small to medium-size trees Albertina also includes the word most expensive wood Dalbergia belongs to family Fabaceae assigned to the informal monophyletic Dalbergia clade of the Dalbergieae. It was native to tropical regions of Central and South America, Africa, South Asia and Madagascar. Its price is $ 14-16 Board/Feet. The use of Dalbergia is mostly valued for decorative, and fragrant wood which is rich with aromatic oils while it’s most famous special is rosewood. It is used for high-class furniture, sports goods, bridge piles, and railway sleepers. This wood is most valued because of its fragrant wood which is rich with aromatic oils most brilliant species is rosewood. One of its type intensely black wood in demand for making woodwind musical instruments.
2. Bubinga
It is the expensive and popular type of wood found in Africa. It belongs species of flowering plant genus Guibourtia from family Fabaceae. It is also known as Kevazingo wood. Bubinga tree is taller 130-150ft that is more than its width that is 3-6ft. Its wood color is from pinkish red to a darker reddish brown with dark purple of black shades. The Scientific name of Bubinga is Guibourtia Sep. Bubinga is among 16 species of this family every species had its distinct properties and used according to their qualities. It comes in various patterns for example waterfall, pommel, mottled, flamed and quilted. It is mostly used in high-end furniture by contemporary Arts and Crafts artists. It is also employed in Veneer, inlays, turning and other specialty items. The price of this wood is $18.99 Board/Feet. Some people have skin irritation from Bubinga wood.
1. Bocote
Bocote belongs to Cordia, which is a genus of flowering plants from the borage family, Boraginaceae that comprised of more than 300 species of shrubs and trees on the planet. Its trees are 65-100 ft .taller and its trunk diameter is 3-5 ft. It is found mostly in the Mexico, Central, and South America. Its color is natural yellowish brown with a bit dark brown shades which became dark to dark with the passage of time. Most of its family species are used for fragrance because of aromatic wood. It also used in furniture, flooring, and gunstocks. Some species have edible fruits, and some have been used for making glue. Its price is $32.99/Board Feet. The Scientific name of Bocote is Cordia Sep. It is the most beautiful and expensive wood due to its utilization for various purposes.
Matsutake is the most expensive mushroom in the world at this time, and it is not readily available. This highly coveted mushroom can be found in Asia, North America, Europe, Japan, China, Korea, The United States, Canada, Finland and Sweden. It associated with the Japanese Red Pine, and it mainly found in Japan from under fallen leaves on the forest floor. Therefore, it is extremely hard to find.
New York is well known for its luxurious hotels and also it is an expensive city of America. Executive Chef Frank Tujague for New York Westin Hotel created one of the most expensive dishes in the world. Bagels is a circular baked bread and decorated it with a small amount of white truffle cream, and goji berry infused Riesling jelly and golden leaves, and if we tried this, then they called doughnuts.
Mostly people like to eat omelets in Breakfast because it is easy to cook and healthy meal. The Zillion dollar frittata is the most expensive breakfast that made by Le Parker Meridien Hotel In New York with different ingredients. It is a mixture of six eggs with 10 ounces of sevruga caviar and lobster. Sevruga Caviar is also an expensive ingredient which costs $ 65 per ounce. Due to its high price it sold out only 12 times in full versions and 50 times in smaller version.
In North America, it ‘s hard to find Wagyu because mainly it found in and outside Japan. Wagyu beef is very healthy meat which is full of Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acid and also the present acceptable ratio of monounsaturated and saturated fats in it. Cows fed with beer and massaged by hand to ensure tenderness. It is affordable by every average restaurant. In New York City’s Craftsteak the wagyu rib eye was served at a private party at very high price.
An England chief Prahlad Hegde created this seafood dish and said it is a family recipe. Bombay Brassiere packed this curry on the celebration of Slumdog Millionaire. In that great dish Devon crab, white truffle, Beluga caviar with gold, Scottish lobsters, four abalones and four quail eggs are used. In fact, we can say that this dish is full cover with expensive ingredients.
A Scottish chef Domenico Crolla decided to make 12 inch Pizza Royale 007. Different ingredients used in this like lobsters marinated in cognac, Caviar soaked in Champagne, tomato sauce, prosciutto, Scottish Smoked Salmon, Venison medallions and vinegar and these all are very expensive and finest ingredients and 24 karat gold used in its toppings
When you think about watermelon the greenest kind with the reddest inside comes in mind. But watermelon is not only in green cover but also black watermelon is one of rare and expensive food. Its full name is Densuke Black watermelon which is grown on the Japanese Island called Hokkaido. It is delicious and famous for its hardness and crispness. Its covering is black but from inside red in color and weight of one watermelon is 17 pounds.
People who love cantaloupe, Yubari Ling Melons is the best food for them. It is not an ordinary cantaloupe because it is high in price and world’s most expensive fruit. They are grown in Japan and known as spicy cantaloupe due to its distinct taste. Mostly seafood owners purchase these melons and make their dishes tastier. This food item is high in demand in the supermarket, but due to its high price can’t afford by everyone.
Almas Caviar is originated from Iran and making it exceedingly rare. Without it, every expensive dish is incomplete because it provides the best taste to the whole dish. It is not available from every store; this item carries only one outlet that is Caviar House & Prunier which located in Picadilly in London. 24 karat gold used in its packaging and a smaller tin of caviar sold in $1,250. This popular food item only used in world’s big and expensive restaurants
Italian truffle is the most expensive food in the world. This food is difficult to cultivate, but it is delicious and tasty and look like a mushroom. At San Miniato hills you can find this truffle. A retail investor and his wife from Hong Kong purchased 1.51 kilograms truffle in $160,406 which made most expensive food of the world.
