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