Lignum vitae wood can also be used to brew a tea. Other names for lignum vitae include palo santo (Spanish for "holy wood") Aura palo santo and "bastard greenheart" (not to be confused with true greenheart "Chlorocardium rodiei", a popular wood in shipbuilding, cabinetry, and woodturning but a completely different timber). Lignum vitae is also one of the numerous hard, dense woods loosely referred to as "ironwood". Lignum vitae is hard and durable, and is also the densest wood traded (density: 1.23 g/cm); it will easily sink in water. On the Janka Scale of Hardness, which measures hardness of woods, lignum vitae
Walter Janka judgement against him. At the same time a legal and journalistic displute flared between Janka and Wolfgang Harich about the details of those 1957 show trials. Janka's contribution to dramaturgy received recognition in the form of the Heinrich Greif Prize in 1990. On 16 December 1989 Janka was a member of the presidium at the of the SED (then in the process of transforming itself into the PDS / Party of Democratic Socialism / " Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus") held in Berlin at the Dynamo Sports Hall. In 1990 he was a member of the "Council of Elders" of the