There are a variety of tree species and even non tree species such as bamboo that each have different characteristics that include not only surface appearance such as color and texture but other features such as hardness and durability using such measures as the Janka Hardness test. Each species is going to have its own unique profile not only in its unfinished form, but also in it treated and finished forms.
Some species include:
- Ash
- Bamboo
- Beech
- Birch
- Brazilian Cherry
- Brazilian Maple
- Brazilian Walnut
- Bubinga
- Chery
- Cork
- Cumaru
- Cypress
- Douglass Fir
- Hickory Pecan
- Iroko
- Jarrah
- Mahogany
- Maple
- Maple Sugar Hard
- Merbeau
- Mesquite
- Pine Antique Heart
- Pine Southern Yellow
- Pudauk
- Purpleheart
- Red Oak
- Sapele
- Spotted Gum
- Sydney Blue Gum
- Tasmanian Oak
- Teak
- Walnut
- Black Walnut
- Wenge
- White Oak