|
Common name
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Scientific name
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Origin
|
Uses
|
Level of use in the UK
|
Global threat status
|
Available as reclaimed?
|
|
Oak
|
Quercus spp.
|
UK, Europe, North America
|
Wide variety of applications, including joinery, furniture, fittings, flooring wood strip and woodblock flooring
|
Major
|
-
|
Regularly as reclaimed beams, floorboards,
|
|
Oak, Tasmanian
|
Eucalyptus delegatensis
|
Australia
|
General purpose timber, flooring
|
Minor
|
-
|
|
|
Odoko
|
Scottellia coriacea
|
Africa
|
Interior and exterior construction, furniture
|
Minor
|
-
|
|
|
Ogea
|
Daniellia spp.
|
Africa
|
Plywood, joinery, furniture, veneer
|
Minor
|
D. klainei LR/NT
D. oblonga VU
|
|
|
Okoume
|
Aucoumea klaineana
|
Gabon
|
Plywood
|
Minor
|
VU
|
|
|
Okwen
|
Brachystegia spp.
|
Africa
|
Flooring, veneer, general construction, joinery.
|
Minor
|
B. kennedyi VU
B. zenkeri VU
|
|
|
Olon
|
Fagara heitzii
|
Africa
|
Interior construction, furniture, veneers.
|
Minor
|
-
|
|
|
Opepe/ Kussia
|
Nauclea diderrichii
|
West Africa
|
Outdoor construction, marine defence, sleepers, flooring.
|
Minor
|
VU
|
Occasionally as beams, woodblock flooring
|
|
Padauk
|
Pterocarpus spp.
|
India, Myanmar, West Africa
|
Joinery, flooring, boat-building
|
Minor
|
P. indicus VU
|
Regularly as wood strip and woodblock flooring
|
|
Common name
|
Scientific name
|
Origin
|
Uses
|
Level of use in the UK
|
Global threat status
|
Available as reclaimed?
|
|
Panga Panga
|
Millettia stuhlmanii
|
Africa
|
Cabinet work, joinery, veneer, flooring, turnery,
|
Minor
|
-
|
Regularly as woodblock flooring
musical instruments
|
|
Pau Marfim
|
Balfourodendron riedelianum
|
Brazil
|
Furniture making, flooring, construction, turnery
|
Minor
|
EN
|
|
|
Pear
|
Pyrus communis
|
Europe
|
Turnery, carving, drawing instruments, veneer
|
Minor
|
-
|
|
|
Peroba Rosa
|
Aspidosperma spp.
|
South America
|
Fine furniture, veneer, cabinet work, flooring, interior trim and turning
|
Minor
|
A. polyneuron EN
|
|
|
Persimmon
|
Diospyros virginiana
|
North America
|
Decorative ware, musical instruments, turnery
|
Minor
|
-
|
|
|
Pine (softwood) various and types, also known
as Redwood
|
Pinus spp.
|
UK, Europe (commonly in plantations), North America
|
General utility work
|
Major
|
-
|
Regularly as beams, floorboards, wood strip woodblock flooring
|
|
Pine, Parana (softwood)
|
Araucaria angustifolia
|
Brazil (some plantations)
|
Joinery, plywood
|
Minor
|
VU
|
|
|
Pitch Pine (softwood)
|
Pinus spp.
|
Southern USA, Brazil (plantations)
|
Construction, plywood
|
Minor
|
-
|
|
|
Plane, European
|
Platanus hybrida
|
Europe
|
Veneer, general purpose handles
|
Minor
|
-
|
|
|
Poplar
|
Populus spp.
|
UK, Europe
|
Matches, turnery, minor craft goods
|
Minor
|
-
|
|
|
Purpleheart
|
Peltogyne spp.
|
Central and South America
|
Heavy construction work, decorative purposes
|
Minor
|
-
|
Occasionally, as beams
|
|
Common name
|
Scientific name
|
Origin
|
Uses
|
Level of use in the UK
|
Global threat status
|
Available as reclaimed?
|
|
Quaruba
|
Vochysia spp.
|
South America
|
Carpentry, utility plywood, furniture components, interior trim, millwork
|
Minor
|
-
|
|
|
Common name
|
Scientific name
|
Origin
|
Uses
|
Level of use in the UK
|
Global threat status
|
Available as reclaimed?
|
|
Ramin
|
Gonystylus bancanus
|
Malaysia, Indonesia
|
Mouldings
|
Major
|
VU
|
|
|
Rauli
|
Nothofagus procera
|
South America
|
Furniture, joinery, mouldings, turnery
|
Minor
|
-
|
|
|
Rosewood
|
Dalbergia spp.
|
Africa, South America, India
|
Furniture, musical instruments
|
Minor
|
Various Dalbergia species in international trade are threatened; D. nigra CITES Appdx I
|
|
|
Rubberwood
|
Hevea brasiliensis
|
Malaysia (plantations)
|
Furniture
|
Major
|
-
|
|
|
Common name
|
Scientific name
|
Origin
|
Uses
|
Level of use in the UK
|
Global threat status
|
Available as reclaimed?
|
|
Sapele
|
Entandophragma cylindricum
|
West Africa
|
Furniture, joinery, decorative applications
|
Major
|
VU
|
|
|
Sepetir
|
Sindora spp.
|
South-east Asia
|
Furniture, veneer, light construction, household utensils, plywood, flooring
|
Minor
|
S. inermis VU S. supa VU
|
|
|
Sequioa, red
|
Sequioa sempervirens
|
North America
|
Joinery
|
Minor
|
-
|
|
|
Simpoh
|
Dillenia spp.
|
South-east Asia
|
Plywood, interior joinery, furniture and cabinetwork
|
Minor
|
Several species VU
|
|
|
Spruce (softwood),
also known as
Whitewood
|
Picea spp.
|
UK, Europe (commonly in plantations),
North America
|
General purpose timber
|
Major
|
-
|
Regularly, as beams, floorboards, wood strip and woodblock flooring
|
|
Sterculia, red
|
Sterculia rhinopetala
|
Africa
|
Light construction work, interior joinery, boxes and crates
|
Minor
|
-
|
|
|
Swamp sepetir
|
Pseudosindora palustris
|
South-east Asia
|
Furniture, cabinetwork, joinery, flooring, plywood, veneers
|
Minor
|
-
|
|
|
Sycamore
|
Acer pseudoplatanus
|
Europe
|
Turnery, veneers
|
Major
|
-
|
|
|
Common name
|
Scientific name
|
Origin
|
Uses
|
Level of use in the UK
|
Global threat status
|
Available as reclaimed?
|
|
Tali
|
Erythrophleum spp.
|
Africa
|
Flooring, heavy construction
|
Minor
|
-
|
|
|
Tatajuba
|
Bagassa guianensis
|
South America
|
Furniture, flooring, joinery, heavy construction
|
Minor
|
-
|
|
|
Taun
|
Pometia pinnata
|
South-east Asia
|
General purpose timber
|
Minor
|
-
|
|
|
Tchitola
|
Oxystigma oxyphyllum
|
Africa
|
General purpose timber, veneer, plywood
|
Minor
|
-
|
|
|
Teak
|
Tectona grandis
|
South-east Asia (also in plantations elsewhere)
|
High quality furniture, joinery, garden furniture
|
Major
|
-
|
Regularly as wood strip and woodblock flooring, occasionally as beams
|
|
Teak, Rhodesian
|
Baikiaea plurijuga
|
Southern Africa
|
Exterior construction, flooring
|
Minor
|
LR/NT
|
Regularly as wood strip and woodblock flooring
|
|
Terentang
|
Campnosperma brevipetiolata
|
South-east Asia
|
Light general purposes
|
Minor
|
-
|
|
|
Tiama / Edinam /
Cedu nohor
|
Entandrophragma angolense
|
Africa
|
Furniture, joinery, construction, flooring
|
Minor
|
VU
|
|
|
Tornillo
|
Cedrelingua cataeneformis
|
South America
|
General furniture construction,
|
Minor
|
-
|
|
|
Tulipwood /
American poplar
|
Liriodendron tulipifera
|
North America
|
Mouldings, drumsticks
|
Minor
|
-
|
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