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  2. 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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Zebrawood - Wikipedia

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    Zebrawood proper. The wood of Microberlinia (also known as Zebrano) is imported from central Africa, (Gabon, Cameroon, and Congo). The heartwood is a pale golden yellow, distinct from the very pale color of the sapwood and features narrow streaks of dark brown to black. Zebrawood can also be a pale brown with regular or irregular marks of dark ...

  5. Hardwood - Wikipedia

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    Hardwood. Hardwood is wood from dicot 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).

  6. Tropical timber - Wikipedia

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    Tropical timber may refer to any type of timber or wood that grows in tropical rainforests and tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests and is harvested there. Typical examples of worldwide industrial significance include, among others, the following hardwoods : Overexploitation of those woods has led to widespread deforestation in the ...

  7. Paubrasilia - Wikipedia

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    Paubrasilia. An adult specimen in a park in Florianópolis, Brazil. Paubrasilia echinata is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae, that is endemic to the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. [4] [5] It is a Brazilian timber tree commonly known as Pernambuco wood or brazilwood [6] ( Portuguese: pau-de-pernambuco, pau-brasil; [6] Tupi ...

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