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This is a list of woods, in particular those commonly used in the timber and lumber trade.
See also: woods (golf clubs), forest, and the list of forests.
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Softwoods (conifers)
Cedar (Cedrus); also applied to a number of woods from trees in the Cypress family mainly in North America, see Redcedar, Whitecedar and Yellow-Cedar in Softwoods, and to woods from some relatives of the mahogany, see Spanish-cedar and Redcedar in Hardwoods
Pine (Pinus; Many woods are incorrectly called "Pine". See Auracaria and Douglas-fir above)
Scots Pine, Red pine (UK), Red deal (UK), Redwood (UK, obsolete) (Pinus sylvestris)
White Pine in (N.Am.), Yellow or Weymouth pine (UK, obsolete)
Sugi (Cryptomeria japonica)
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Hardwoods (angiosperms)
Yellow birch (B. alleghaniensis syn Betula lutea) - most common birch wood sold in N.Am.
European birches, also Baltic birch (N.Am.)
Carapa (or Andiroba, Carap, Crappo, Crabwood and Santa Maria) (Carapa guianensis) .
"Brazilian Cherry" Not a Cherry See Jatoba below
Andaman marble-wood (India) (Diospyros kurzii)
Ebène marbre (Mauritius, E. Africa) (Diospyros melanida)
American elm (Ulmus americana)
English elm (Ulmus procera)
Rock elm (Ulmus thomasii)
Slippery elm (Ulmus rubra)
Karri (W. Australia) (Eucalyptus diversicolor)
Mahogany eucalyptus, (New South Wales) (Eucalyptus)
Jarrah or West Australian eucalyptus (Eucalyptus marginata)
Mockernut hickory (Carya alba)
Pignut hickory (Carya glabra)
Shagbark hickory (Carya ovata)
Shellbark hickory (Carya laciniosa)
Hophornbeam, Eastern (Ostrya virginiana)
Ironwood refers to the wood of many tree species noted for the hardness of their wood. Trees commonly known as ironwoods include:
Carpinus caroliniana — also known as American hornbeam
Krugiodendron ferreum — Black Ironwood
Mesua ferrea — also known as Rose Chestnut or Ceylon Ironwood, from Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia
Olea spp. — various olive trees
Olneya tesota — Desert Ironwood
Ostrya virginiana — Hop hornbeam
In N.Am. also refers to Australian Silky oak
Black locust or Yellow locust (Robinia pseudacacia)
Mahogany (African) (Khaya spp.)
Mahogany (West Indies or Cuban) (Swietenia mahagoni)
Mahogany (Honduras, Central and South America) (Swietenia macrophylla)
Mahogany (Philippine), Not a mahogany, see Lauan.
American White Oak includes wood from any of the following species of trees:
English oak, also French and Slovenian oak barrels (Quercus robur and sometimes Quercus petraea)
Red Oak includes wood from any of the following species of trees:
"Tasmanian oak"; Not an oak see Eucalyptus above
Australian "Silky oak"; Not an oak see Silky Oak below
Okoumé or "Gaboon" (Aucoumea klaineana)
Poplar (Populus; in N.Am., wood sold as poplar is usually Yellow-poplar — see below)
Balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera)
Hybrid poplar (Populus × canadensis)
Sassafras (Australia) (Atherosperma moschatum)
Silky Oak; (Grevillea robusta); Sold as Lacewood in North America
Brazilian walnut; Not a walnut see Ipe above.
Black willow (Salix nigra)
Cricket-bat willow (Salix alba 'Coerulea')
White willow (Salix alba)
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Hardwoods (monocotyledons)
Bamboo (a number of species in Tribe: Bambuseae)
Palmwood (Cocos nucifera) is 'new' wood source that is increasingly being used as an ecologically-sound alternative to endangered hardwoods.
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See also
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