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Other common names: Caloon 
Distribution:  
Tree Data: Medium sized hardwoods with buttressed, straight trunk. Bark grey or brownish slightly longitudinally wrinkled, with brown-coloured pustules in the wrinkles. 
Timber Properties : Heartwood is pale brown to yellow brown with occasional grey tingeing with darker stripeing. Timber exhibits a fine and even texture with an interlocking grain. This produces a ribbon figure on the radial surfaces. Heartwood not durable enough for external use Heartwood pale-brown, sometimes with a greyish tinge, and sometimes with stripes of a darker colour. Sapwood creamy-white.Often interlocked, producing a ribbon figure on the radial surface. Texture moderately fine and even.560-610 kgm-Class 4 - Suitable for use only in continuously dry situations under cover, well ventilated, clear of the ground and fully protected from the weather and other dampness.Untreated sapwood susceptible to lyctid borer attack.Sapwood accepts preservative impregnation. Sapwood Creamy-white.Heartwood Pale straw colour, with grey streaks.Moderately fine and uniform, straight grain, soft to cut.. 
Working Characteristics: Brown Quandong is easy to work, glues well and cuts cleanly. It holds nails and screws well, and dresses to a fine finish. It accepts staining, polish and paint readily. Low durability. Should be treated for use above ground externally. 610kg/cu.m  
Common Uses: It's predominate uses include veneers, joinery, plywood, and furniture. Other uses include flooring, turnery, mouldings, and general building framing.Internal lining, Finishing material, joinery, veneer 
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red brown - medium – 512 kg m-3 Utility interior carpentry furniture Trade and local names: quaruba, tin-tin Tree. Geographic distribution: Mexico and Central America and tropical South America. eneral. Heartwood basically red (pinkish brown). Sapwood colour similar to heartwood colour, or distinct from heartwood colour. Basic specific gravity 0.33–0.5 g/cm³.  

A tree is found in Venezuela, Guianas and in the Amazonian basin.  Its wood used in is compensated, wainscotings, linings, tilted, mobile, boxes, esquadrias, finishings of interior, etc.  600 kg  good durability

see Pau Marfim

see Birch, Yellow

see Pine, Eastern White

Other common names: Brauna (Brazil) 
Distribution: Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, southern Brazil 
Tree Data:  
Timber Properties : Very durable Heartwood is light red when first cut, darkening to a beautiful brick red after exposure, sometimes marked with dark brown almost black stripes. Fine textured and extremely hard. 1000 kg cum 
Working Characteristics: Difficult to work with hand tools. Rather poor in-use stability with a tendency to check. Very high tannin content. 
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Timber Properties : Queensland Maple heartwood is pink to brownish pink with a sapwood which is white to pale grey. Grain is fairly interlocked with a medium to even texture producing varied figure. Heartwood is moderately durable and sapwood is not susceptible to lyctid attack. Sapwood readily accepts preservative treatment, while heartwood does not. It should be used only in a continuous dry situation, away from damp and ground contact problems. 580 kg/cu.m to 640 kg/cu.m 
Working Characteristics: It is easy to work, nail, and glue. However, this timber does tend to buckle at times and is therefore unsuitable for bending. Accepts paint, polish and stain reasonably well. Machines and turns well to a smooth surface. 
Common Uses: Internal lining, Finishing material, joinery, veneer Queensland maple is an outstanding furniture timber that is also used in veneers, paneling, joinery, boat building, and in implement and instrument related work. 
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see messmate, Gympie

Other common names: oriental wood, walnut bean, Australian walnut, Australian laurel. Distribution: Grows in northern Queensland. Tree Data:  Timber Properties : Straight to wavy grained with a fine, even texture. Narrow, pinkish sapwood and pinkish brown to dark brown heartwood, often with pinkish, gray-green, or blackish streaks. Resembles European walnut. Moderately heavy and hard with medium bending strength, high crushing strength, low stiffness, low steam bending, medium shock resistance, medium movement in service, and low to medium decay resistance. Considerably stronger than most true walnuts. Working Characteristics: Difficult to work due to severe blunting effect from silica in wood. Carbide-tipped blades highly recommended. Glues satisfactorily and has good screw and nail holding properties. Polishes to an excellent finish. Common Uses: One of the most popular species in Australia for cabinetry, furniture, interior joinery, and paneling. Valued for electrical insulation applications due to its extremely high insulation properties. Also used for flooring, construction, veneers, and various types of decorative work. General :

Other common names: Incienso, balsamo 
Distribution: Argentina, Paraguay, Southern Brazil, with related species native to Northern South America. 
Tree Data:  
Timber Properties : Very decay resistant Heartwood color is deep red, sometimes with purple highlights and high natural luster. Spicy scent, a source of balsam used in perfumes. Good in-use stability, but can be difficult to machine due to interlocked grain. 750 – 800 kg cum 
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Other common names: Commonly called Monkeypod in its native Philippines 
Distribution:  
Tree Data: Chocolate brown and cream in colour, this tree grows quite large, specimens with a girth of 27 feet (9 meters) being quite common. 
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Common Uses: Raintree is used for both turnery and furniture manufacture. 
General : Raintrees actually close their leaves during rainfall, thus ensuring the survival of fodder supplies below.

Other common names: English: rambutan Thai: ngoh, phruan Malaysian Aborigine: nert, gente Indonesia and Malaysia: rambutan Cambodia: saaw maaw Vietnam: chom chom, vai tieu Chinese (Cantonese): hooun mo daon; (putonghua): shau tsz 
Distribution: Tropical Old World: probably Malaysia and Indonesia, it is distributed throughout southern China (Yunnan and Hainan), Indo-Chinese region, Malay Archipelago and the Philippines. 
Tree Data:
 Timber Properties : rambutan wood is fairly hard and heavy, and reputed to be resistant to insects but not to fungi, however, trees are usually too small to be valued as timber 
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Other common names: ramin telur, melawis, and lanutan-bagyo. 
Distribution: G rows in Sarawak, Malaysia, and south east Asia. 
Tree Data:  
Timber Properties : Straight to mildy interlocked grain and a relatively fine, even texture. Creamy white to pale straw colored heartwood and sapwood - not well differentiated from each other. Moderately heavy and hard with high crushing strength, moderately high bending strength and stiffness, low shock resistance, and poor decay resistance. Exhibits large movement in service. Steam-bends poorly. Disadvantages: Danger of cracking non durable. 
Working Characteristics: Works fairly easily with machine or hand tools but tends to chip out on quartered surfaces and end grain. Glues satisfactorily. Pre-drilling required for screws or nails. Stains, paints, and generally finishes nicely although grain filling may be necessary to achieve a smooth surface. 
Common Uses: Used for furniture, mouldings, interior joinery, office fixtures, toys, carving, dowels, handles, and other turnery, flooring, paneling, plywood, corestock, and decorative veneers. 
General : Often used as a substitute for beech.

see Ramin

Sapwood is white to pale pink and is clearly defined from the heartwood which is pink-brown to red-brown and darkening on exposure. Grain is straight to interlocked. Texture is rather fine and even. 

see Teak, Burmese

Member of the Myrtle family. Two species - Southern and Northern. Becoming rare due to attack by possums.

 see Alder, Common

Tree of 50 to 60 meters height, found in the Amazon region. Its wood is used for bridges, poles, naval construction, etc. 1050 kg cu m. Very durable 

see Beech, American

see Birch, Paper

see Cedar Eastern Red

See Baldcypress

see Elm, Slippery

see Douglas Fir

see Hickory, Shagbark

Aka Mugga, Dark red Structural Difficult to work due to its density and interlocked grain Very durable 1050 kg m-3

see Cedar Eastern Red

See BAGTIKAN:

see Maple, Red

see Mapou