Thousands of Little Holes

I tried to carve from the last piece of exotic wood mentioned in this post: it is "kostela" or european nettle tree.
The wood was quite hard and it took a lot of work to split it. But then I found that it contains a surprising amount of open pores that look like tiny holes.

Heartwood is less porous (it is visible on the left side of the picture), but I didn't have enough for a decent spoon. And a spoon from the porous sapwood would be like a sieve. So in the end I carved this nice foraminate pebble.