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  2. Wood - Wikipedia

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    Ash. Wood is a structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic material – a natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin that resists compression. Wood is sometimes defined as only the secondary xylem in the stems of trees, [1] or more ...

  3. List of woods - Wikipedia

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    NCSU Inside Wood project Reproduction of The American Woods: exhibited by actual specimens and with copious explanatory text by Romeyn B. Hough US Forest Products Laboratory, "Characteristics and Availability of Commercially Important Wood" from the Wood Handbook Archived 2021-01-18 at the Wayback Machine PDF 916K

  4. Hardwood - Wikipedia

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    Hardwood. Hardwood is wood from angiosperm trees. These are usually found in broad-leaved temperate and tropical forests. [1] In temperate and boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous, but in tropics and subtropics mostly evergreen. Hardwood (which comes from angiosperm trees) contrasts with softwood (which is from gymnosperm trees).

  5. Mahogany - Wikipedia

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    Mahogany tree plantation in Jessore, Bangladesh. Mahogany is a straight- grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwood species of the genus Swietenia, indigenous to the Americas [1] and part of the pantropical chinaberry family, Meliaceae. Mahogany is used commercially for a wide variety of goods, due to its coloring and durable nature.

  6. Teak - Wikipedia

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    Teak is a large deciduous tree up to 40 m (131 ft) tall with grey to greyish-brown branches, known for its high-quality wood. Its leaves are ovate-elliptic to ovate, 15–45 cm (5.9–17.7 in) long by 8–23 cm (3.1–9.1 in) wide, and are held on robust petioles which are 2–4 cm (0.8–1.6 in) long. Leaf margins are entire.

  7. Natural beech wood - Wikipedia

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    Natural forests has trees from all stages of the life cycle, including dead and decaying trees. Natural beech wood is a beech wood, that is able to replenish and sustain itself on its own. Beech is a valued timber, but most beech woods require human intervention to replace old trees, since the young trees are not able to survive at all, or at a ...

  8. Lignum vitae - Wikipedia

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    Lignum vitae ( / ˈlɪɡnəm ˈvaɪti, - ˈviːtaɪ / [1]) is a wood, also called guayacan or guaiacum, [2] and in parts of Europe known as Pockholz or pokhout, from trees of the genus Guaiacum. The trees are indigenous to the Caribbean and the northern coast of South America (e.g., Colombia and Venezuela) and have been an important export crop ...

  9. Rosewood - Wikipedia

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    Rosewood is any of a number of richly hued hardwoods, often brownish with darker veining, but found in other colours. [1] It is hard, tough, strong, and dense. True rosewoods come from trees of the genus Dalbergia, but other woods are often called rosewood. Rosewood takes a high polish and is used for luxury furniture-making, flooring, musical ...

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