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Picture Family Scientific Name/ Local Name
Location Type of
Wood
Characteristics of Tree
Application in
Construction Industry
Bignoniaceae Jacaranda obtusifolia/ Fern Tree
South America
Hard Wood
Height: 6.6 Ft. – 98 Ft.
Used for poles and for making small items as tool handles and carvings
Lythraceae Lagerstroemia speciosa/ Queen of Flowers
India and China to Austrialia
Hard Wood
Height: 30 Ft. – 80 Ft. Width: 15 Ft. – 30 Ft.
Used to manufacture bridges, furniture and railway sleepers
Leguminosae Samanna saman/ Saman, Rain Tree
Central America
Hard Wood
Height: 50 Ft. – 80 Ft. Crown: Up to 100 Ft.
Used for Boat Frames
Dignoniaceae Crescentia cujete/ Calabash
Tropical America
Hard Wood
Height: up to 16 Ft.
Used for tool handles, wooden wheels, ribs in boat buiding
Leguminosae Andria inermis/ Angelin
Tropical America; West Indies
Hard Wood
Height: up to 115 Ft. Resistant to fungi and termites
Used to manufacture bridges, furniture, railroad tracks, waterfront docks, poles and boats
Meliaceae Carapa guianensis/ Crappo
Tropical America
Hard Wood
Height: up to 115 Ft.
Flooring, frame contruction, cabinet work
Sapotaceae Chrysophyllum cainito/ Star Apple, Caimite
Tropical America
Hard Wood
Height: 25 Ft. – 100 Ft.
Used for heavy construction and for deluxe furniture
Picture Family Scientific Name/ Local Name
Location Type of
Wood
Characteristics of Tree
Application in
Construction Industry
Magnoliaceae Michelia champaca/ Champac
Himalaya Soft Wood
Height: up to 20 Ft. Bark is bitter, tonic, astringent, antiperiodic and alterative
Used for Furniture, doors and windows and general carpentry and construction
Rubiaceae Nauclea diderrichii/Opepe
West Africa Hard Wood
Very resistant to decay and moderately resistant to termite attacks
Used in dock and marine work, boat building, railroad crossties, flooring and furniture
Lecythidaceae Lecythis zabucajo/Sapucaia Nut
South America
Hard Wood
Height: up to 115 Ft.
Used for ship, keels, beams, railroad crossties and industrial flooring
Lecythidaceae Couroupita guianen/Cannon Ball
Guianas Soft Wood
Height: up to 90 Ft.
Used for manufacture of furniture
Bignoniaceae Tabebuia serratifolia/ Yellow Poui
South America
Hard Wood
Height: 40 Ft – 150 Ft. Width: 4Ft. – 70 Ft. Hard and resistance to fire and pests
Use for house posts, bridge building, and for railways sleepers
Sapindaceae Melicoccus bijugatus/Chennet
Tropical Amercia
Hard Wood
Height: up to 85 Ft.
Used to construct cabinets
Bignoniaceae Kigelia Africana/Sausage Tree
Tropical Africa
Hard Wood
Height: up to 65 Ft.
Used to construct shelving and dough out canoes
Picture Family Scientific Name/ Local Name
Location Type Of
Wood
Characteristics of Tree
Application in
Construction Industry
Annonaceae Annona glabra/ Pond Apple
Tropical America and West Africa
Soft Wood
Height: 33 Ft. – 66 Ft. Width: 40 Ft. – 50 Ft.
Root wood used as floats (low density)
Magnoliaceae Magnolia grandiflora/ Bull Bay
United States
Hard Wood
Height: 60 Ft. – 90 Ft. Width: 30 Ft. – 50 Ft.
Used to manufacture doors, furniture, pallets
Casuarinaceae Casuarina equisetifolia/ Whistling Pine
Australia; Indomalesia
Soft Wood
Height: 20 Ft. – 115 Ft.
Used for fencing, beams and post
Bombbacaceae Pachira insignis/ Wild Chataigne
Tropical America
Soft Wood
Height: 60 Ft. – 80 Ft.
Used to make boxes, crates and concrete formwork
Bignoniaceae Tabebuia rosea/ Pink Poui
Central and South America
Hard Wood
Height: 70 Ft. – 90 Ft.Width: 30 Ft. – 50 Ft.
Boat building, furniture, cabinetry, decorative figured veneer, flooring, and millwork.
Annonaceae Cananga Odorata/ Ylang-Ylang
Tropical Asia to Australia
Hard Wood
Height: 33 Ft. – 66 Ft.
Used to make furniture, boxes and crates
Picture Family Scientific Name/ Local Name
Location Type Of
Wood
Characteristics of Tree
Application in
Construction Industry
Leguminosae Peltophorum pterocarpum/ Yellow Flame
Asia; Australia
Hard Wood
Height: 50 Ft – 80 Ft.
Used for making cabinet sawn or hewn building timber, woodcarving
Annonaceae Monodora myristica/ Calabash Nutmeg
Tropical Africa
Hard Wood
Height: up to 115 Ft
Used for carpentry, turnery and walking sticks
Palmae Roystonea oleracea/ Royal Palm
Lesser Antilles; Trinidad and Tobago; Venezula; Colombia
Hard Wood
Height: up to 130 Ft.
Used for decorative ornaments
Leguminosae Cassia fistula/ Indian Laburnum
Tropical Asia
Hard Wood
Height: 33 Ft. – 66 Ft.
Used for cabinetwork and posts.
Moraceae Artocarpus altilis/ Breadfruit
Central Malesia to Melanesia
Hard Wood
Height: 30 Ft. – 60 Ft. Resist termites
Used for statues and other objects
Malpighiaceae Malpighia emarginata/ West Indian Cherry
Tropical America
Hard Wood
Height: up to 20 Ft.
Not Applicable
Leguminosae Erythrina variegate/ Variegated Immortelle
Tropical Asia to Pacific
Soft Wood
Height: 50 Ft. – 66 Ft.
Used for shades and boundary
Picture Family Scientific Name/ Local Name
Location Type Of
Wood
Characteristics of Tree
Application in
Construction Industry
Meliaceae Switenia macrophylla/ Honduras Mahogany
Central and South America
Soft Wood
Height: 65 Ft. – 148 Ft.
Used in interior paneling, joinery work, furniture, plywood, veneer
Sapindaceae Blighia sapida/ Akee
West Africa Soft Wood
Height: 33 Ft. – 60 Ft. Termite Resistant
Used for light construction and furniture, interior trim, joinery and raiway sleepers
Rubiaceae Warszewiczia coccinea/ Chaconia
Tropical America
Soft Wood
Height: 15 Ft. – 20 Ft. Width 20 Ft.
Too small to provide useful timber
Leguminosae Saraca indica/ Asoka
Indomalesia Soft Wood
Height: 23 Ft. – 33 Ft. Evergreen tree.
Used to make posts for construction or fencing
Combretaceae Terminalia arjuna/ Arjun
Southeast Asia
Hard Wood
Height: 65 Ft. – 82 Ft. Buttressed trunk and forms a wide canopy at the crown
Used for construction of boats and boat houses.
Boraginaceae Cordia sebestena/ Geiger Tree
Tropical America
Hard Wood
Height: up to 25 Ft. Evergreen Tree
Used for making furniture
Picture Family Scientific Name/ Local Name
Location Type Of
Wood
Characteristics of Tree
Application in
Construction Industry
Proteaceae Grevillea robusta/ Silky Oak
Queenland; Australia
Hard Wood
Height: 66 Ft. – 99 Ft.
Used for furniture, packing cases, flooring, paneling, plywood , small wooden items such as pencil
Araucariaceae Araucaria cunnunghamii/ Hoop Pine
East Australia
Soft Wood
Height: 98 Ft. – 164 Ft. Asymmetrical tree. Straight rough-barked trunk
Used to build furniture, veneer, joinery, turnery and boats.
Leguminosae Brownea coccinea/ Mountain Rose
Venezuela; West Indies
Soft Wood
Height: 20 Ft. – 30 Ft.
Used to make furniture
Bignoniaceae Spathodea campanulata/ African Tulp
Tropical Africa
Soft Wood
Height: 23 Ft. – 82 Ft.
Used for makings fence post
Bignoniaceae Tabebuia chrysantha/ Black Poui
Central and South America
Hard Wood
Height: 20 Ft. – 40 Ft. Insect Resistant
Used for making furniture, decking and other outdoor uses
Leguminosae Delonix regia/ Flamboyante {Red}
Madagascar Soft Wood
Height: 33 Ft. – 50 Ft. Weak, rittle and resistant to moisture
Used for rough posts, supports for flooring and for bridges as it is said to be very durable
Picture Family Scientific Name/ Local Name
Location Type Of
Wood
Characteristics of Tree
Application in
Construction Industry
Moraceae Chlorophora excels/ Oroko
Tropical Africa
Hard Wood
Height: up to 165 Ft.
Used for furniture, flooring, framing, interior trim, joinery, stairworks
Bignoniceae Jacaranda obtusifolia/ Fern Tree
South America
Hard Wood
Height: 6.6 Ft – 98 Ft.
Used for making furniture
Anacardiaceae Dracintomelon dao/ Dao
Indomalesia Hard Wood
Height up to 148 Ft.
Used for veneers, furniture, plywood,, interior trim and light frames
Araucariceae Araucarua hunsteinii/ Klinki Pine
New Guinea
Soft Wood
Height: 150 Ft. – 295 Ft.
Used for flooring, joinery, light construction, millwork, plywood and veneer
Leguminosae Myroxylon pereirae/ Balsam of Peru
Venezuela to Peru
Hard Wood
Height: up to 132 Ft.
Used for making tools
Ebenaceae Diospyros malabarica/ Guab Tree
Tropical Asia
Hard Wood
Height: 50 Ft. – 121 Ft.
Used for cabinet work, furniture and handicrafts.
Podocarpaceae Podocarpus gracilior/ Africian Fern Pine
East Africa Hard Wood
Height: 20 Ft. – 50 Ft. Evergreen
Used for flooring paneling, plywood, railroad ties, tables