A List Of Hardwoods

Wood hardness chart species alphabetical hardness species by hardness hardness mahogany honduran 800 padauk 1725 mahogany santos 2200 tabaccowood 1750 maple hard north american 1450 rosewood bolivian 1780 maple ivory 1500 bamboo carbonized 1800 maple soft 999 hickory 1820 merbau 1925 pecan 1820 mesquite 2345 yellowheart 1820.

A list of hardwoods.

If you can try to buy wood from a sustainable forest commercial tree farms that ensure the supply of the wood. This is a list of woods most commonly used in the timber and lumber trade. Also wood names can be misleading. All our tropical exotic types of hardwood have the fsc mark for durable management of the world s forests.

You can easily identify a hardwood from a conifer. Most common hardwoods unlike the conifers or softwood firs spruce and pines hardwood trees have evolved into a broad array of common species. Hardwood trees usually have broad flat leaves as opposed to coniferous needled or scaled tree foliage another name for a hardwood tree is appropriately broadleaf. With white dense wood the white ash is the most common daily wood of the hardwood trees.

In the process of identifying wood things can get a bit overwhelming when faced with the hundreds and hundreds of possible species yet in the context of everyday woods that most people in the united states or canada are likely to encounter the list of possible woods is usually much shorter. This obviously excludes dents in all practicality a great number of hardwoods are hard enough for nearly all residential applications. Common hardwoods and softwoods for furniture. The wood from hardwood trees tends to be harder because the trees grow at a slower rate giving the wood its greater density.

Here is a list of common hardwoods and softwoods used in the crafting of furniture. A lot of times especially on floors the finish will get scratched when the wood underneath is perfectly fine. Hoop pine araucaria cunninghamii monkey puzzle tree araucaria araucana paraná pine araucaria angustifolia cedar cedrus celery top pine phyllocladus aspleniifolius. Do note a wood s heartwood is harder than its sapwood.

Check out the national hardwood lumber association for ways to support sustainable forestry. We deliver various types of hardwood. White ash though similar in appearance to the green ash this tree s leaves are noticeably lighter on the underside. Following is a list of common hardwoods and their characteristics.

Most but not all hardwoods are deciduous perennial plants which are normally leafless for some time during the year.