Identifying Australian Hardwoods

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Identifying australian hardwoods.

Ask yourself these questions. Observe the wood grain. It is helpful when furniture shopping remodeling or crafting to be able to identify and match hardwoods and softwoods. Bloodwood brosmium paraense country.

Stains weathering and other changes to the surface of the wood can disguise the type of tree the sample came from. On this page you can search hardwoods by botanical name common name or application. Does the wood have an open porous texture. This book describes a simplified approach for identification of hardwoods and softwoods although it deals principally with woods from the usa the northern temperate region and some tropical species as well.

Bubinga figured guibourtia spp country. 3 heartwood 1 pale brown pale pink or pale straw pale pink or pale yellowish brown pale pink or pale pinkish brown pale pink or pale pinkish brown yellow brown pale to dark brown or chocolate pale brown sometimes with a pinkish tinge. The types of feature associated with native species include knot kino often called fire streak or gum lines burls hobnail and black speck. This eliminates the chances of a stain or natural aging skewing the color diagnosis of the wood.

If the wood is unfinished then look at the texture of the grain. However very little information is available for the many australian species and notably the eucalypts. Most common hardwoods unlike the conifers or softwood firs spruce and pines hardwood trees have evolved into a broad array of common species. Pinhole borers and beetle marks may be evident in some timber.

Hardwoods come from flowering trees and softwoods are derived from conifers. Australian blackwood acacia melanoxylon country. Yellowish golden brown in colour with an occasional tinge of olive green. Details for each species include.

They are the typical markings of a unique group of native hardwoods the eucalypts. Appearance common applications durability strength workability termite resistance and fire resistance. Buckeye burl aesculus californica usa california. Note colors may vary significantly.

Bolivian rosewood machaerium scleroxylon country. Black palm borassus flabellifer region.