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Family

Scientific Name/ Local Name

Location

Type of Wood Hard Wood

Characteristics of Tree

Bignoniaceae

Jacaranda obtusifolia/ Fern Tree

South America

Height: 6.6 Ft. 98 Ft.

Lythraceae

Lagerstroemia speciosa/ Queen of Flowers

India and China to Austrialia

Hard Wood

Height: 30 Ft. 80 Ft. Width: 15 Ft. 30 Ft.

Leguminosae

Samanna saman/ Saman, Rain Tree

Central America

Hard Wood

Height: 50 Ft. 80 Ft. Crown: Up to 100 Ft.

Application in Construction Industry Used for poles and for making small items as tool handles and carvings Used to manufacture bridges, furniture and railway sleepers Used for Boat Frames

Dignoniaceae

Crescentia cujete/ Calabash

Tropical America

Hard Wood

Height: up to 16 Used for tool Ft. handles, wooden wheels, ribs in boat buiding Height: up to 115 Ft. Resistant to fungi and termites Used to manufacture bridges, furniture, railroad tracks, waterfront docks, poles and boats Flooring, frame contruction, cabinet work

Leguminosae

Andria inermis/ Angelin

Tropical America; West Indies

Hard Wood

Meliaceae

Carapa guianensis/ Crappo

Tropical America

Hard Wood

Height: up to 115 Ft.

Sapotaceae

Chrysophyllum cainito/ Star Apple, Caimite

Tropical America

Hard Wood

Height: 25 Ft. 100 Ft.

Used for heavy construction and for deluxe furniture

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Family

Scientific Name/ Local Name

Location

Type of Wood Soft Wood

Magnoliaceae

Michelia champaca/ Champac

Himalaya

Rubiaceae

Nauclea diderrichii/Opepe

West Africa

Hard Wood

Lecythidaceae

Lecythis zabucajo/Sapucaia Nut

South America

Hard Wood

Lecythidaceae

Couroupita guianen/Cannon Ball

Guianas

Soft Wood

Application in Construction Industry Height: up to 20 Used for Ft. Bark is Furniture, bitter, tonic, doors and astringent, windows and antiperiodic and general alterative carpentry and construction Very resistant Used in dock to decay and and marine moderately work, boat resistant to building, termite attacks railroad crossties, flooring and furniture Height: up to Used for ship, 115 Ft. keels, beams, railroad crossties and industrial flooring Height: up to 90 Used for Ft. manufacture of furniture

Characteristics of Tree

Bignoniaceae

Tabebuia serratifolia/ Yellow Poui

South America

Hard Wood

Sapindaceae

Melicoccus bijugatus/Chennet

Tropical Amercia

Hard Wood

Height: 40 Ft 150 Ft. Width: 4Ft. 70 Ft. Hard and resistance to fire and pests Height: up to 85 Ft.

Use for house posts, bridge building, and for railways sleepers

Used to construct cabinets

Bignoniaceae

Kigelia Africana/Sausage Tree

Tropical Africa

Hard Wood

Height: up to 65 Used to Ft. construct shelving and dough out canoes

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Family

Scientific Name/ Local Name

Location

Type Of Wood Soft Wood

Characteristics of Tree

Annonaceae

Annona glabra/ Pond Apple

Tropical America and West Africa

Height: 33 Ft. 66 Ft. Width: 40 Ft. 50 Ft.

Application in Construction Industry 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.

Annonaceae

Cananga Odorata/ Ylang-Ylang

Tropical Asia to Australia

Hard Wood

Height: 33 Ft. 66 Ft.

Boat building, furniture, cabinetry, decorative figured veneer, flooring, and millwork. Used to make furniture, boxes and crates

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Family

Scientific Name/ Local Name

Location

Type Of Wood Hard Wood

Characteristics of Tree

Leguminosae

Peltophorum pterocarpum/ Yellow Flame

Asia; Australia

Height: 50 Ft 80 Ft.

Application in Construction Industry Used for making cabinet sawn or hewn building timber, woodcarving Used for carpentry, turnery and walking sticks

Annonaceae

Monodora myristica/ Calabash Nutmeg

Tropical Africa

Hard Wood

Height: up to 115 Ft

Palmae

Roystonea oleracea/ Royal Palm

Leguminosae

Cassia fistula/ Indian Laburnum

Lesser Antilles; Trinidad and Tobago; Venezula; Colombia Tropical Asia

Hard Wood

Height: up to 130 Ft.

Used for decorative ornaments

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 Not Ft. Applicable

Leguminosae

Erythrina variegate/ Variegated Immortelle

Tropical Asia to Pacific

Soft Wood

Height: 50 Ft. 66 Ft.

Used for shades and boundary

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Family

Scientific Name/ Local Name

Location

Type Of Wood Soft Wood

Characteristics of Tree

Meliaceae

Switenia macrophylla/ Honduras Mahogany

Central and South America

Height: 65 Ft. 148 Ft.

Sapindaceae

Blighia sapida/ Akee

West Africa

Soft Wood

Height: 33 Ft. 60 Ft. Termite Resistant

Rubiaceae

Warszewiczia coccinea/ Chaconia

Tropical America

Soft Wood

Height: 15 Ft. 20 Ft. Width 20 Ft.

Application in Construction Industry Used in interior paneling, joinery work, furniture, plywood, veneer Used for light construction and furniture, interior trim, joinery and raiway sleepers 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 Used for Ft. Evergreen making Tree furniture

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Family

Scientific Name/ Local Name

Location

Type Of Wood Hard Wood

Characteristics of Tree

Proteaceae

Grevillea robusta/ Silky Oak

Queenland; Australia

Height: 66 Ft. 99 Ft.

Araucariaceae

Araucaria cunnunghamii/ Hoop Pine

East Australia

Soft Wood

Height: 98 Ft. 164 Ft. Asymmetrical tree. Straight rough-barked trunk

Application in Construction Industry Used for furniture, packing cases, flooring, paneling, plywood , small wooden items such as pencil 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 Application in Construction Industry Used for furniture, flooring, framing, interior trim, joinery, stairworks Used for making furniture

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Family

Scientific Name/ Local Name

Location

Type Of Wood Hard Wood

Characteristics of Tree

Moraceae

Chlorophora excels/ Oroko

Tropical Africa

Height: up to 165 Ft.

Bignoniceae

Jacaranda obtusifolia/ Fern Tree

South America

Hard Wood

Height: 6.6 Ft 98 Ft.

Anacardiaceae

Dracintomelon dao/ Dao

Indomalesia

Hard Wood

Height up to 148 Ft.

Araucariceae

Araucarua hunsteinii/ Klinki Pine

New Guinea

Soft Wood

Height: 150 Ft. 295 Ft.

Leguminosae

Myroxylon pereirae/ Balsam of Peru

Venezuela to Peru

Hard Wood

Height: up to 132 Ft.

Used for veneers, furniture, plywood,, interior trim and light frames Used for flooring, joinery, light construction, millwork, plywood and veneer 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. Used for flooring paneling, plywood, railroad ties, tables

Podocarpaceae

Podocarpus gracilior/ Africian Fern Pine

East Africa

Hard Wood

Height: 20 Ft. 50 Ft. Evergreen