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Thanks for the end pics, Nonoy.

I agree with Kai, partially. It's definitely palm wood, probably rattan.

The wood is definitely a monocot, not a broadleaf (aka dicot) tree. Dicots are the ones that produce tree rings, and if it was a dicot, we would either see no pattern or the classic bulls-eye radial pattern.

Monocots include palms (such as rattan), and they evolved to be trees independent of the monocots. Instead of being organized radially, palm wood has bundles all over the place, as we see here.

Bit of a botany lesson, but for anybody who didn't know, this is how you tell palm wood from some other hardwood.

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