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Tropical timbers available in FSC-certified wood Is available Trade Name Bot. Name IUCN Red List Utilisation Picture Kwila Intsia bijuga Flooring, furniture, paneling, fine joinery, decorative I. palembanica turnery, cabinetmaking, musical instruments, specialty items. The wood is also a dye source. Jatoba Hymenaea courbaril Tool handles and other applications where good shock resistance is needed, steam-bent parts, flooring, turnery, furniture and cabinet work, railroad crossties tree-nails, gear cogs, wheel rims, and other specialty items. Tree exudes a rosin-like gum known commercially as South American copal. Seed pods contain an edible pulp. Cumaru / Dipteryx odorata Heavy construction, cogs and shafts, barge and dock Tonka / Ebo fenders, flooring, railroad crossties, pulp mill equipment, tool handles, bearings, turnery. A substitute for lignum vitae. Machiche Lonchocarpus castilloi Heavy construction, flooring, furniture components. Durable species suggested for railroad crossties. Padouk Pterocarpus indicus Rough construction lumber, particleboard and fiberboard, general carpentry, plywood, fine joinery, fancy turnery, carvings, flooring, decorative veneer, tool and knife handles. Furniture, boat building. Marupa Simarouba amara Interior construction, boxes and crates, furniture components, veneer and plywood, pattern making, millwork, particleboard and fiberboard. Curupau Anadenanthera Used for heavy exterior construction and marine work, macrocarpa flooring, railroad crossties, tool handles, turnery. The bark is extracted for its tannin Guatambu Balfourodendron EN A1acd+2cd Furniture, cabinetwork, tool handles, flooring, turnery. riedelianum Suggested as a substitute for birch and hard maple Muirapiranga, Brosimum paraense General construction work, flooring, furniture, cabinet Satinè work, veneers, and tool handles. Indian Dalbergia latifolia Fine furniture and cabinetwork, musical instruments, Rosewood turnery, decorative veneers, specialty items Cocobolo Dalbergia retusa Highly favored in the cutlery trade for handles, inlay work, brush backs, musical and scientific instruments, jewelry boxes, chessmen, and other specialty items Eucalyptus Eucalyptus Heavy construction but not for dock and harbor work, diversicolor flooring, used locally for plywood. Morado Machaerium Fine furniture, decorative veneers, turnery, specialty items, scleroxylon and cabinet work. Generally useful for the same purposes as Brazilian rosewood (Dalbergia nigra). Honduras Swietenia macrophylla VU A1cd+2cd Fine furniture and cabinet making, interior trim, paneling, Mahagoni fancy veneers, musical instruments, boat building, pattern making, turnery, and carving Ipe Tabebuia impetiginosa Railroad crossties, heavy construction, tool handles, turnery, industrial flooring, textile mill items, decorative veneers Sources where you could search for FSC certified tropical timbers: www.certifiedwood.org www.espen.de www.preciouswoods.com www.ecotimber.co.uk Tropical Wood Trade Name Bot. Name IUCN – Red List Utilisation Picture category Abachi Triplochiton scleroxylon LR (lc) Furniture components, plywood, joinery, millwork, boxes and crates, blockboard, particle and fiberboard, patternmaking, artificial limbs, sauna. Mahogany Swietenia humilis, VU A1cd Fine furniture and cabinet making, interior Swietenia macrophylla, VU A1cd+2cd trim, paneling, fancy veneers, musical Swietenia mahagoni EN A1cd instruments, boat building, pattern making, turnery, and carving. Te ak Tectona grandis NE Shipbuilding, joinery, furniture, flooring, carving, cabinetwork, paneling, turnery, tanks and vats, fixtures requiring high resistance to acids. Merbau, Kwila Intsia bijuga VU A1cd Flooring, furniture, paneling, fine joinery, I. palembanica decorative turnery, cabinetmaking, musical instruments, specialty items. The wood is also a dye source. Dark Red Shorea curtisii, LR lc Veneer and plywood, joinery, flooring, Meranti S. ovata, EN A1cd furniture and cabinetwork, general S. pauciflora, EN A1cd construction, boatbuilding. S. singkawang CR A1cd Light Red Shorea acuminata, CR A1cd Light structural work, furniture components, Meranti S. lebrosula, EN A1cd joinery, plywood, cabinetwork, flooring, S. macroptera, concrete form work, a general utility wood. S. parviflora White Meranti Shorea bracteolata, EN A1cd+2cd Veneer and plywood, flooring, general S. hypochra CR A1cd construction, vats and casks, boat framin g. and other species of the subgenus Anthochorea. Yellow Shorea acuminatissima, CR A1cd EN A1cd Joinery, flooring, furniture components, Meranti S. faguetiana, CR A1cd plywood, paneling, light structural work. S. gibbosa, CR A1cd Dammar exudates are collected from trees in S. hopeifolia, Malaya. S. multiflora and other species of the subgenus Richetia Yellow Balau Shorea obtusa, Heavy construction, framing of boats, S. robusta, parquet flooring, heavy-duty flooring, utility S. atrinervosa, and garden furniture. S. glauca EN A1cd and others. Bangkirai Shorea laevifolia Heavy construction, framing of boats, parquet flooring, heavy-duty flooring, utility and garden furniture. Sapelli Entandrophragma cylindricum VU A1cd Furniture and cabinetwork, decorative veneers, plywood, joinery, flooring, paneling. Sipo Entandrophragma utile VU A1cd Furniture and cabinetwork, joinery, decorative veneers and plywood, boat construction. Khaya / Khaya anthotheca, VU A1cd Furniture and cabinetwood, boatbuilding, African K. grandifoliola, VU A1cd joinery, veneer and plywood, paneling, Mahogany K. ivorensis, VU A1cd flooring,shop fixtures. K. madagascariensis, EN A1cd K. senegalensis VU A1cd Bongossi Lophira alata VU A1cd Heavy durable construction work, harbor /Azobe work, heavy-duty flooring, parquet flooring, railroad crossties Iroko, Milicia excelsa, VU A1cd Suggested as a teak substitute. Joinery, Kambala M. regia VU A1d boatbuilding, piling and marine work, domestic flooring, furniture, veneer, railroad crossties, cabinetwork, shop fittings. Afrormorsia Pericopsis elata EN A1cd Boatbuilding, joinery, flooring, furniture, decorative veneers, considered an excellent teak substitute. Wenge / Millettia laurentii EN A1c,d Parquet or strip floor ing, joinery, general Panga Panga M. stuhlmannii construction, specialty items. Wenge is used as a hickory substitute in sporting goods, also for decorative veneer. Ramin Gonystylus affinis, NE Furniture, joinery, moldings, paneling, G. bancanus, VU A1cd flooring, turnery, plywood, nonstriking G. brunnescens, NE handles (brooms), dowels, picture frames, a G. confuses, NE general utility wood. G. keithii, VU A1cd+2cd G. macrophyllus, VU A1cd G. maingayi Keruing / Dipterocarpus alatus, EN A1cd+2cd, B1+2c General construction work, framework for Yang/ D. baudii, CR A1cd+2cd boats, flooring, pallets, chemical processing Apitong D. costulatus, CR A1cd+2cd, B1+2c equipment, veneer and plywood, suggested D. grandiflorus, CR A1cd+2cd for railroad crossties if treated. D. kerrii, CR A1cd+2cd, B1+2c D. verrucuosa and others. Parashorea Parashorea aptera, CR A1cd Interior joinery, light construction, flooring, White Seraya P. buchananii, plywood, furniture and cabinetwork, general White Salaun P. chinensis, EN A1cd, C2a, D carpentry work, ships' decking. P. densiflora, EN A1cd, B1+2c P. globosa, EN B1+2e, D P. lucida, CR A1cd, B1+2c, C2a P. macrophylla , CR A1cd, B1+2c, C2a P. malaanonan, CR A1cd P. parvifolia , P. plicata , P. smythiesii, P. stellata, CR A1cd, B1+2c P. tomentella Trade Name Bot. Name Utilisation Picture Kwila Intsia bijuga Flooring, furniture, paneling, fine joinery, decorative turnery, I. palembanica cabinetmaking, musical instruments, specialty items. The wood is also a dye source. Jatoba Hymenaea courbaril Tool handles and other applications where good shock resistance is needed, steam-bent parts, flooring, turnery, furniture and cabinet work, railroad crossties tree-nails, gear cogs, wheel rims, and other specialty items. Tree exudes a rosin-like gum known commercially as South American copal. Seed pods contain an edible pulp. Cumaru / Dipteryx odorata Heavy construction, cogs and shafts, barge and dock fenders, flooring, Tonka / Ebo railroad crossties, pulp mill equipment, tool handles, bearings, turnery. A substitute for lignum vitae. Machiche Lonchocarpus castilloi Heavy construction, flooring, furniture components. Durable species suggested for railroad crossties. Padouk Pterocarpus indicus Rough construction lumber, particleboard and fiberboard, general carpentry, plywood, fine joinery, fancy turnery, carvings, flooring, decorative veneer, tool and knife handles. Furniture, boat building. Marupa Simarouba amara Interior construction, boxes and crates, furniture components, veneer and plywood, pattern making, millwork, particleboard and fiberboard. IUCN Red List Categories and criteria: EXTINCT (EX) - A taxon is Extinct when there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EXTINCT IN THE WILD (EW) - A taxon is Extinct in the wild when it is known only to survive in cultivation, in captivity or as a naturalised population (or populations) well outside the past range. A taxon is presumed extinct in the wild when exhaustive surveys in known and/or expected habitat, at appropriate times (diurnal, seasonal, annual), throughout its historic range have failed to record an individual. Surveys should be over a time frame appropriate to the taxon's life cycle and life form. CRITICALLY ENDANGERED (CR) A taxon is Critically Endangered when it is facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild in the immediate future,