San Antonio's subtropical climate pushes Black Limba in the opposite direction, where relentless humidity and triple-digit summer heat threaten to swell what Salt Lake City's aridity would have shrunk, demanding that installers account for expansion rather than contraction when seaming those striking grey-to-black veins into finished panels. The golden brown heartwood, which tends to darken with age under any conditions, accelerates that deepening here beneath the intensity of southern Texas light, meaning specifiers must anticipate where the veneer will arrive tonally in five years rather than where it begins on delivery day. Rosebud ships from Louisville understanding that the same flitch performs as two different materials depending on whether it lands in a desert basin or a river city, and the technical guidance they provide accounts for both extremes. As the story follows this wood further along the coast toward San Clemente, the variables shift again — the humidity remains, but the heat softens, and an entirely new set of coastal considerations begins to surface.