Since the discovery of the New World, mahogany has become the king of cabinet woods. The wood combines beauty, stability, ease of working, and durability to a higher extent than any other wood. Like cherry, mahogany is photosensitive, and will, over the years, develop the unsurpassed deep, glowing red color one sees in museum furniture. Mahogany sometimes shows figure such as quilted and fiddleback which are among the most desired of all woods. The mahogany tree is a very vigorous, relatively fast-growing, and widespread tree from Mexico into southern South America, and is in no way endangered.