Furniture Timber Species Index
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| American Cherry Botanical Name: Prunus serotina. Description: Scattered throughout deciduous forest areas in Canada and the USA. Cherry has a fine, straight, close grain with a smooth texture. Small gum pockets are sometimes present. Usage: Normally used in fine furniture, cabinetwork, musical instruments, turnery and carving and for the production of decorative veneers. |
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| American Walnut Botanical Name: Juglans Nigra. Description: A medium to large hardwood limited to the eastern USA and south-eastern Canada. Generally straight grain but curly and wavy grain may be present. Texture is coarse. Usage: Gunstocks have been a favoured use due to its shock resistance. High quality furniture, cabinetmaking, interior joinery, turnery, carving and decorative veneers. |
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| American Red Oak Botanical Name: Quercus rubra. Description: Medium sized hardwoods of Central North America and eastern Canada. Straight grained, coarse textured, less figure than American White Oak due to smaller rays. Usage: Flooring, furniture, interior joinery, wine casks and vats, plywood manufacture and decorative veneers. |
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| American White Oak Botanical Name: Quercus spp. Description: Medium hardwood growing in Eastern USA and South Eastern Canada. Straight grained with a medium to coarse texture. Usage: Furniture, staircase and cabinet making. Joinery, construction, plywood and decorative veneers. |
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| American Rock Maple Botanical Name: Acer saccharum. Description: Large hardwoods located throughout Canada and Eastern USA. Usage: Useful in any situation of high abrasion - flooring, carving and butchers blocks or moving parts where timber can be used. Also used for furniture, paneling, turnery and veneers. |
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| Amoora Botanical Name: Amoora cucullata. Description: A hardwood mainly found in Papua New Guinea but also growing throughout much of South-east Asia and India. Grain is irregular or interlocked. Texture is slightly uneven to coarse. White, yellow or dark deposits are common in Bekak. Usage: Furniture, flooring, veneer, light construction and turnery. |
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| Blackbean Botanical Name: Castanospermun australe. Description: A large rainforest hardwood spreading from Northern New South Wales to North Queensland. The grain is usually straight but interlocked grain can be found on occasion. Texture is rather coarse and greasy to touch. Usage: High class furniture, cabinet work, joinery, turnery, carvings and interior fittings. It produces a very decorative veneer. |
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| Blue Gum Botanical Name: Eucalyptus saligna. Description: Blue Gum grows from the southern coast of New South Wales through to Southern Queensland. It is a tall hardwood and one of the predominant species in commercial use. The grain generally straight but interlocked and the texture is moderately coarse and even. Usage: Flooring, furniture, moulding, decking and turnery. It is available as a veneer. |
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| Brushbox Botanical Name: Tristania conferta. Description: Indigenous to the fringes of rainforests from Central New South Wales to Northern Queensland. Other members of the Tristania genus are found growing throughout Indo-Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia. In Malaysia the trade names are Pelawan, Melaban and Selunsur. The grain is usually interlocked to varying degrees. Texture is fine and even. There may be some evidence of silica in the timber. Usage: The timber is principally used as flooring, staircase and cladding timber. It has been used in dry areas as a decking and walkway timber. |
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| Chilian Myrtle Botanical Name: Nothofagus procera. Description: Medium sized hardwood growing almost exclusively in Chile. The grain is straight and the texture fine and even. Usage: Furniture, cabinetwork, joinery and decorative veneers. |
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