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Level
of Global threat
Available
Common use status
Scientific name Origin Uses as
name in (see key
reclaimed?
the above)
UK
Mino
Abura Mitragyna ciliata West Africa Interior joinery -
r
Terminalia Plywood, interior Mino
Afara Africa -
superba use r
Afrormosi Furniture, Mino EN; CITES Appx
Pericopsis elata West Africa
a joinery r II
A. africanaVU
A.
Top quality Mino
Afzelia Afzelia spp. West Africa bipindensisVU
exterior joinery r
A.
pachylobaVU
Gossweilerodendr Plywood, Mino
Agba West Africa EN
on balsamiferum furniture r
Occasionall
Minor utility Mino
Alder Alnus glutinosa UK, Europe - y, as
products r
beams
Various,
Mino
Alstonia Alstonia spp. Africa depending on -
r
density
South Mino
Andiroba Carapa guianensis Turnery -
America r
Furniture, light M. durandiiVU
Monopetalanthus construction, Mino M.
Andoung Africa
spp. plywood, boxes r compactusVU
and crates M heitziiLR/NT
Veneer, Mino
Antiaris Antiaris spp. Africa -
plywood, r
furniture,
joinery, boxes
and crates, light
construction
Minor craft Mino
Apple Malus sylvestris UK, Europe -
items r
Musical
instruments,
heavy
Mino
Asanfona Aningeria spp. Africa construction, -
r
marine,
furniture,
flooring
Light coloured
UK, Europe, Occasionall
furniture, Majo
Ash UK, Fraxinus spp North - y, as
panelling, tool r
America flooring
handles
Outdoor
construction,
marine
Distemonanthus Mino
Ayan Africa construction, -
benthamianus r
furniture,
decorative
veneers
Level
of Global threat
Available
Common use status
Scientific name Origin Uses as
name in (see key
reclaimed?
the above)
UK
Many Shorea
Balau / spp. in
Heavy duty
Selangan South-east Majo international
Shorea spp. construction
batu Asia r trade
work
/bangkirai areCR, EN orV
U
Model making, Mino
Balsa Ochroma lagopus Ecuador -
insulation r
Dicornia South Marine and dock Mino
Basralocus -
guianensis America work r
Regularly,
UK, Europe, Furniture, as wood
Majo
Beech Fagus spp. North flooring, musical - strip and
r
America instruments woodblock
flooring
Heavy
construction,
Berlinia, furniture and Mino B.
Berlinia spp. Africa
red cabinetwork, r occidentalisVU
veneers,
panelling
General purpose
South-east Mino Some species
Bintangor Calophyllum spp. timber, musical
Asia r are threatened
instruments
Plywood, light
construction,
Octomeles South-east Mino
Binuang furniture -
sumatrana Asia r
components,
cabinetwork
UK, Europe,
General purpose Mino
Birch Betula spp. North -
timber, plywood r
America
Furniture,
Castanospermum Mino
Black bean Australia cabinetwork, -
australe r
joinery
Poles,
Black Robinia Europe, agricultural Mino
-
locust pseudoacacia America implements, r
furniture
General purpose
timber,
Eucalyptus Mino
Blackbutt Australia construction -
pilularis r
(including
marine), flooring
Musical
Blackwood Dalbergia Mino
Africa instruments, LR/NT
, African melanoxylon r
craft products
General purpose Occasionall
Mino
Blue gum Eucalyptus saligna Australia timber, also used - y, as wood
r
for paper strip
flooring
Turnery,
Boxwood, Buxus craftwork, sports Mino
Europe -
European sempervirens goods, musical r
instruments
Regularly,
Bubinga Copaifera Veneer, Mino as
West Africa VU
Minor salikounda furniture r woodblock
flooring
Level
of Global threat
Available
Common use status
Scientific name Origin Uses as
name in (see key
reclaimed?
the above)
UK
Light
South construction, Mino Several species
Caimito Pouteria spp.
America furniture, r are threatened
cabinet work
Light
construction,
Canarium Mino
Canarium Africa furniture, -
schweinfurthii r
veneer,
plywood.
C. odorataVU,
Cabinet making, CITES Appdx III
South and
Cedar, boatbuilding, Mino (Peruvian
Cedrela spp. Central
American light r population)
America
construction C. fissilisEN
C. lilloi EN
J.
virginiana:
Cedar, Juniperus
North Mino J.
pencil virginiana/J. Specialist uses
America J. r proceraLR/NT
(softwood) procera
procera:
East Africa
Cedar,
Exterior use,
western North Mino Regularly,
Thuja plicata cladding some -
red America, r as beams
UK plantations
(softwood)
Furniture,
Mino
Celtis Celtis spp. Africa cabinets, -
r
carving, veneer.
Specialised
UK,
crafted furniture
Cherry, Europe, Mino
Prunus spp. and decorative -
European North r
work, musical
America
instruments
Minor goods,
Chestnut, Aesculus Mino Regularly,
Europe turnery and -
horse UK, hippocastanum r as beams
utensils
Chestnut, Furniture, Mino Regularly,
Castanea sativa UK, Europe -
sweet joinery, fencing r as beams
Outdoor and
Chontaqui Diplotropis South Mino
marine -
ro martiussi America r
construction
Furniture,
Nothofagus South joinery, Mino
Coigue -
dombeyi America mouldings, r
turnery
Exterior
Mino
Cordia Cordia millenii Africa cladding, -
r
furniture, joinery
Plywood,
Cottonwo blockboard, Mino
Bombax spp. Africa -
od boxes and r
crates, furniture
Heavy
Curupay / Anadenanthera South Mino
construction, -
Curapixa macrocarpa America r
flooring, turnery
African
Underwater
Anopyxis Mino
Kokoti Africa construction VU
klaineana r
and piling
Kosipo / Entandrophragm Furniture, Mino
Africa VU
Omu a candollei flooring r
Veneer,
interior Mino P. macrocarpaVU
Koto Pterygota spp Africa
joinery, r P. bequaertiiVU
furniture
Kussia - see
Opepe
Level
of Available
Common Global threat status
Scientific name Origin Uses use as
name (see key above)
in the reclaimed?
UK
UK
(softwood) General
Majo
Larch Larix decidua (plantations purpose -
r
) Europe, timber
Russia
Heavy
construction
Albizia Mino
Latandza Africa , furniture, VU
ferruginea r
marine
work, veneer
Interior
joinery, Mino
Lati Amphimas spp. Africa -
veneer, r
mouldings
Chilean Laurelia South Mino
Laurel, Veneer -
aromatica America r
Special officinaleEN
Lignum Central and bearings, Mino America G.
Guaiacum spp.
vitae South tools, sports r G. sanctum:EN Both
goods CITES Appdx II
Construction
(including
Gilbertiodendro marine), Mino Several species
Limbali Africa
n spp. industrial r areVU
flooring,
panelling
Brush backs, Regularly,
Mino
Lime Tilia spp. Europe turnery, - as antique
r
minor goods carving
General
Chrysophyllum Mino
Longui Africa purpose -
africana r
timber
Louro Marine
(see also South structures, Mino
Ocotea spp. Several species VU
Greenheart America heavy duty r
) work
Level
of Available
Common Global threat status
Scientific name Origin Uses use as
name (see key above)
in the reclaimed?
UK
Utility and
decorative
work,
Regularly,
indoors and
Majo as
Mahogany, Khaya ivorensis West Africa outdoors, African VU
r woodblock
from
flooring
boatbuilding
to furniture
and joinery.
Regularly,
Joinery, high as
Central and VU, CITES Appdx III
Mahogany, Swietenia quality Majo woodblock
South (populations in
Brazilian macrophylla furniture, r flooring,
America several countries)
plywood occasionall
y as beams
Flooring,
Mino
Makarati Burkea africana Africa furniture, -
r
joinery
Joinery and
wood work
Tieghemella subjected to Mino
Makore West Africa EN
heckelii tough r
environment
s
High class
Mansonia Mino
Mansonia Africa joinery and EN
altissima r
furniture
Maple Acer spp. North Flooring, Mino - Regularly,
America musical r as wood
instruments strip or
woodblock
flooring
Construction
, furniture,
Mashonate Clarisia South Mino
mouldings, -
/ Guariuba racemosa America r
flooring,
turnery
Joinery,
carving,
South-east furniture, Mino
Medang Litsea spp. L.leytensisVU
Asia light r
construction
, veneer
Mengkulan South-east Interior Mino
Heriteria spp. -
g Asia joinery r
Meranti /
Regularly
Seraya All types of
as
(parts of joinery,
Many Shorea woodblock
Malaysia) framing,
South-east Majo species in and wood
and Lauan Shorea spp. doors and
Asia r international trade strip
(Philippines fittings. Also
areCR, EN or flooring,
) Red, used in
occasionall
Yellow and plywood a
y as beams
White
Asia, Africa,
Australia,
Occasionall
Merbau VU (main Top quality
Mino y as wood
Intsia bijuga source exterior VU
r strip
Pacific of timber is joinery
flooring
Indonesia,
Malaysia)
Light
construction
, furniture,
South-east Mino many
Mersawa Anisoptera spp. plywood,
Asia r species CR,EN
veneer,
marine
construction
Industrial
flooring,
South Mino
Mora Mora spp. marine and -
America r
heavy
construction
Occasionall
Cynometra Construction Mino y as
Muhimbi Africa -
alexandri , turnery r woodblock
flooring
Regularly
High quality
as wood
Brachylaena flooring Mino
Muhuhu East Africa - strip and
hutchinsii subject to r
woodblock
heavy wear
flooring
Regularly
as wood
Pterocarpus Panelling Mino
Muninga Africa LR/NT strip and
angolensis and joinery r
woodblock
flooring
Turnery,
Guibourtia flooring, Mino
Mutenye Africa -
arnoldiana furniture, r
veneer