EXOTIC WOOD



A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

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a non-commercial site focusing on color-correct
pictures of exotic and domestic woods

(nothing shown here is for sale)
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MY BOWLS NOW HAVE THEIR OWN SITE AND ARE FOR SALE THERE: www.phinds.com/bowls/

SITE ORGANIZATION
1) You are using the main page that shows only some thumbnails, but ALL thumbnails are available (but recommended only with a high-speed connection) at: total index
2) The alphabet string: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z can be used to take you directly to wood names starting with that letter.
3) The numbers below the thumbnails are: (number of pics, number of 1st enlargements, number of 2nd enlargements)
4) Just below this box, there are links to a bunch of subpages with misc information about wood and about this site, and below that there is a
discussion about WHY I created this site and about HOW the woods are presented. Please don't email me with questions about the site until you've read all that junk. :-)
5) My email address is shown in a graphic if you scroll down a bit from here.
6) Clicking on a thumbnail opens a new page, thus allowing comparison of different woods
7) NOTHING HERE IS FOR SALE. I don't know how to say this any more plainly, but I still get inquires about price and availability.
8) The java-applet-based hit counter has been temporarily removed due to incompatability with the new hosting service.
9) I am NOT a web page designer. I'm open to suggestions for changes, but simplicity is the name of the game. This site contains well over 50,000 individual files and thus cannot possibly be maintained manually or with "normal" web site tools such as FrontPage --- I do it with the help of software I created.

recent updates as of late-2008: unique pics now over 19,000 and I have been adding a lot of pics of single-wood bowls (not my own), since bowls typically show many surfaces all in the same object. I've also gotten back to doing fact sheets and now have over 60 full or partial fact sheets with more on the way

My thanks to the many contributors who continue to give me good information and advice about wood species

this is a totally non-commercial site; nothing is for sale here (*)
PLEASE NOTE: I'm not a web page designer, so this site is strictly utilitarian.
The point is the wood, not the web site.
To get an idea of what the intent is for the information
to eventually be presented for all woods, click
on any these woods
bocote     bubinga     cocobolo
goncalo alves     makore
osage orange     padauk     wenge    
(& click "fact sheet" icon just below the wood name)
my prejudices and how they affect
my comments on this site

How image files are handled on this site
or, why folks think I'm overly analytical

acknowledgements and links to other
non-commercial wood sites

some wood terms described with pictures
??? mystery woods ???

wood toxicity
lumber prices

computer monitors and colors
sample list of wood names

color correction, digital cameras,
eBay pictures, etc.
common names   <===>   botanical names
and some discussion about wood names
and a list of 9000+ names

veneer creation and buying guide

ILLUSTRATED GLOSSARY OF WOOD
and WOODWORKING TERMS
* although the site you are currently viewing has nothing for sale, some of the veneer shown on this site is sold at eBay auction under the seller name "HobbitHouse", and some of it is also sold at the site jewelry box veneers (proceeds from all such sales go into maintaining THIS site). Also, I am now selling my bowls. They can be found at: www.phinds.com/bowls/


for a look at my personal hobby (besides this site) click on any of these:


The point of this site is to show, with accurate color and detail, pictures of every species of exotic wood I can get my hands on (common woods too), and occasionally to also show items made from such woods. If you're looking for tool tips or woodworking tips or chat rooms on wood or woodworking, this is not the place. All you'll find here is pictures and descriptions of wood, and these will be as accurate as I can make them.

When I say "get my hands on", I prefer it to be the exotic wood that I get my hands on, but in the absence of that, I'll settle for just the pictures. The pictures that are not from my own samples are from various sources on the Internet, including eBay auctions. I note that the auction pictures in particular tend to overemphasize the redness of many of the woods. Probably an artifact of digital cameras, but possibly a result of overzealous photo editing trying to make the exotic wood more attractive than it really is. I have done my best to select pictures that I know to be realistic for each species, but even so for the more figured exotic woods in particular some of the pictures are of outstanding specimens because that's what people tend to post on web sites, so that's what I've had available.

Pictures that I have taken myself are identifiable in two ways: first because they are in a section at the top of each individual wood page (the section labled "my samples") and second because they have a size ruler in the picure. I point this out so that you'll know whether or not I've had the ability to compare the actual wood with the image and color correct if needed.

Below, you'll start seeing thumbnails of both exotic wood and common wood, in alphabetical order. Click on the thumbnail to see more details, and note that on many of the wood pictures, the cursor icon will show you that you can get something by clicking on the picture. What you get is a bigger picture. AND, sometimes even the bigger picture has a bigger picture. Just watch the cursor icon to know which is which.

automatically generated statistics:

# different types of wood represented: 694
# unique pictures of those woods: 19,296
12,458 of those unique pictures have enlargements
5,111 of those enlargements have further enlargements
37,559 total image files (including thumbnails and enlargements)
55,822 total files on this web site (including small HTML files)

205 on main page
257 on page 2
232 on page 3

Most of the pictures are concentrated in about 150 of the more readily available woods and for many of the more obscure exotic woods, there is only one picture. I'll add more as I find the time to seek them out.

You'll see that each thumbnail below is followed by a set of three numbers. The first number is how many unique pictures there are on the site for that wood. The second number is how many of the unique pictues have enlargements present. The third number is how many of the enlargements have further enlargements.

Some of these exotic woods are so varied that "representative" hardly has any meaning. The thumbnails are intended to convey some sense of the wood, but as you will see from the full images, the variety can be enormous.

I have attempted to make all pictures color correct to the extent of my knowledge and experience but many pictures are of exotic woods I've never seen, so I've been very specific when color correction has been used on the pictures. Sometimes I am able to get an excellent reproduction of a wood's color but on occasion I just can't get it to work out quite right. I always make a note of either case, but if there is no comment about color, then it's not because I forgot, it's because I have nothing knowledgeable to say. The major goal of this site is to have accurate representations of the exotic woods depicted here. If you notice anything amiss, I'd appreciate hearing from you (contact info below).

I go on and on about color correction on this site because I find that the webmasters at many wood web sites clearly either don't know or don't care how to make exotic wood pictures on the web look anything like the real wood. That gets compounded in some cases by vendors who "correct" the colors to make wood look more appealing than they believe it to be in its natural state and they end up making it look very unreal. This is PARTICULARLY true of a few sellers on eBay. Examples and a more detailed discussion of this are available here: color correction, digital cameras, eBay pictures, etc.

I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has an interest in helping me expand the collection of exotic woods represented here. If you have wood samples or pictures of wood samples or wood projects that you think would enhance this site, I'd be happy to hear from you. I will give credit for anything I post that comes from others (or not, if you so choose). I'd also appreciate it if you would (assuming you find this site interesting and/or helpful) pass on word of this site to other woodworkers. I'm putting a huge amount of time into it, because I enjoy doing it, but I'd be even happier if I could feel that all of my effort is of some use to others.

You can email me at the following address. I apologize for not having a clickable link as I used to, but search robots suck out the email address from the page and then I get huge amounts of spam, so I'll have to ask that you type this into your email.



click on any thumbnail to see more & larger pictures of that wood.
(numbers next to the names indicate how many pics & enlargements there are)

At the very bottom of this main page, I'll add notes about updates to the site

Some of the more obscure woods are represented on this page only by name: their thumbnails are on a second or third page. Clicking on their name will get the pic(s) for them, but if you wish to get the entire 2nd page of thumbnails, click here: 2nd page and if you wish to get the 3rd page of thumbnails, click here: 3rd page

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

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afata (1/1/0)


afrormosia (88/59/30) with fact sheet


afzelia (51/26/7)

agba (2/1/0)

aglaia (2/1/1)

ailanthus (22/16/13)

akikagba (1/1/0)

ako (1/1/0)

alan bunga (1/0/0)

alanbatu (1/0/0)

albizia (17/8/0)


alder (105/62/15) with fact sheet

alerce (6/3/2)

allawa (1/0/0)

almond (2/2/2)

amaranth --- see purpleheart

amargo (16/8/0)

amarillo (2/1/0)

amazakoue (8/6/0)

amazique (11/0/0)


amboyna (44/32/4)

amendoim (21/19/17)

amesclao (1/0/0)

amklaal (1/0/0)


andiroba (47/24/8) with fact sheet

angelim pedra (8/7/3)

angelim vermelho (1/0/0)

angelin (1/0/0)

angico (4/0/0)


anigre (166/108/35) with fact sheet

anjico (3/3/2)

antrocary (1/0/0)

apamate (2/0/0)

apitong (9/4/3)


apple (78/54/16)

apricot (17/15/14)

ara (1/0/0)

araracanga (2/0/0)

arborvite (7/6/5)

arizona silkwood (1/0/0)


ash (278/183/76)


ash, olive (79/60/17)


ash, tamo (73/33/7)


aspen (37/28/15)

attunga (1/1/0)


avodire (62/36/12) with fact sheet



babai (1/0/0)

badi (16/10/10)

bagara (1/0/0)

balau (4/1/1)

balsa (13/11/4) with fact sheet

balsamo (1/0/0)


bamboo (21/8/5)

bangkirai (18/4/0)

bartibi (1/0/0)


basswood (58/40/17) with fact sheet

bauvudi (3/0/0)

bayo (1/1/0)

bayur (1/0/0)

bedaru (1/0/0)


beech (181/111/43)

beech, chilean --- see coigue

beefwood (15/12/0)

bekak (1/0/0)

belah (1/0/0)

beli (4/2/0)

belian (2/2/1)

benge (1/0/0)

benin --- see mahogany, african

berangan (1/0/0)

berlinia (1/0/0)


billy webb (50/28/27)

bimbi (1/1/0)

bimblebox (1/0/0)

bintangor (2/1/1)

binuang (1/0/0)


birch (243/177/94)

bishop wood (3/3/3)

bitis (1/0/0)

bkau (1/0/0)

black box (3/0/0)

blackbean (13/5/4)


blackwood, african (61/38/19) with fact sheet

blackwood, misc (11/2/0)


blackwood, tasmanian (47/29/0)


bloodwood (113/89/46) with fact sheet

bluegum (3/0/0)


bocote (147/130/56) with fact sheet

bodalla (1/1/0)

boire (10/5/1)

bois de rose (11/6/0)

bomenga (3/0/0)

bongossi --- see ekki


bosse (30/13/0)

boxwood (6/2/0)

brauna (1/0/0)

brazilwood --- see pernambuco

breadnut (1/0/0)

briar (5/1/0)


bubinga (310/196/38) with fact sheet


buckeye (34/24/5)

buckthorn (9/8/8)

budgeroo (2/1/0)


bulletwood (31/23/17)

bullhoof (1/1/0)

bundari (1/1/0)

burrinjuck (2/0/0)


butternut (115/85/36) with fact sheet



cabbage bark (4/0/0)

cabreuva (24/13/10)

cacique --- see bloodwood

caldari (1/1/0)


camphor (110/77/12)

canaletta (2/2/1)


canary (127/101/64)

cancharana (2/0/0)

canella (8/0/0)

cangarana (1/0/0)

capirona (9/0/0)

caragana (2/2/0)

carbeen (1/1/0)

carob (5/3/0)

carreto (9/5/0)

cascara (4/4/4)

cashew (6/0/0)

castello (1/0/0)

castillo (2/1/0)


catalpa (30/23/15)

cebil (1/0/0)

cedar, brazilian (2/0/0)

cedar, lebanon --- see cedar, misc


cedar, misc (109/79/34)

cedar, new guinea red (1/1/1)


cedar, red aromatic (84/72/24)


cedar, spanish (61/31/12)


cedar, western red (32/21/11)

cedrinho (2/1/0)

cedroana (11/8/0)


cerejeira (92/68/14)

chakte kok (11/4/0)

chakte viga --- see paela

chamfuta (8/5/4)

charpilla (4/0/0)


chechem (156/112/55) with partial fact sheet

chechen --- see chechem

chen --- see chenchen

chenchen (17/7/0) with partial fact sheet

chengal (2/1/0)


cherry (308/213/80) with fact sheet


chestnut (200/100/35) with fact sheet

chico zapote (1/0/0)

chilean beech --- see coigue

chinaberry (4/4/4)

chinaberry --- see lilac

chittum (1/0/0)

cinnamon (13/11/0)


cocobolo (250/194/94) with fact sheet

cocuswood (9/2/0)


coffee tree (23/15/10)

coigue (19/14/5)

cona lete (9/6/0)

congowood (3/3/0)

coolabah, australia (1/0/0)

coolibah (10/2/0)

copaiba (1/0/0)

copaya (1/0/0)

cordia (2/1/0)

corina (1/0/0)

corkwood (8/6/3)

corrugata (7/6/1)


cottonwood (22/17/9)

cowtree --- see palo de vaca

coyote (7/3/2)

crabwood --- see andiroba

cucos (1/0/0)


cumaru (40/30/25)

curunai (7/3/3)


curupay (32/27/15) with partial fact sheet


curupixa (26/16/2)

cuta (1/0/0)


cypress (83/52/33) with partial fact sheet



dahoma (1/0/0)

dajara (1/1/0)

dakua (1/0/0)

dalbergia brownii (6/4/1)

damar minyak (3/0/0)

danta (1/0/0)

dedali (1/0/0)

degame (1/0/0)

derum (1/0/0)

difou (1/0/0)


dogwood (32/27/21)

dorrigi (1/1/0)

doussie --- see afzelia

durian (1/0/0)

ebony, argentine --- see partridgewood

ebony, brown --- see partridgewood


ebony, gaboon (64/43/20) with fact sheet


ebony, macassar (119/70/13) with fact sheet


ebony, misc (42/21/9)


ebony, mun (17/6/4)

ebony, nigerian --- see ebony, gaboon


ebony, pale moon (27/10/2)

eisbirke (9/8/0)

ekki (6/5/3)

ekop (10/6/4)


elder (55/30/14)

elibiob (1/0/0)


elm (184/124/51)


elm, carpathian (55/42/12)

emberwood (2/1/1)

entapuloh (1/0/0)

espave (11/8/0)

espinillo (1/1/0)


etimoe (133/88/14)

etzdam (1/1/1)


eucalyptus (157/85/21)



faieira (1/0/0)

fava amargosa (2/0/0)

faveira bolota (1/0/0)

faveira branca (1/0/0)


fir (91/72/39)

flamewood (6/3/0)

framire (2/2/0)

freijo (7/5/2)


gaboon (34/18/6) with fact sheet

galga (1/1/0)

garapa (2/1/0)

gausiban (1/1/1)

geriting teruntum (1/0/0)

geronggang (2/1/1)

gerutu (1/0/0)

giam (2/1/1)

gidgee (1/1/0)

ginko (13/9/5)

gmelina (7/1/0)


gogo (30/20/8)


goiabao (43/24/9)

goldwood (2/0/0)

gombeira (1/1/1)


goncalo alves (112/82/25) with fact sheet


granadillo (83/45/27)

greenheart (7/0/0)

gronfoloe (4/0/0)

guanacaste (11/7/3)

guanacaste --- see kelobra

guarea (9/7/3)

guariuba (4/0/0)

guearu (1/0/0)


gum (128/90/32) with fact sheet


hackberry (84/52/18) with fact sheet

harewood (6/3/0)

hawthorn (8/5/0)


hemlock (24/19/12)

hevea (1/1/0)


hickory (132/99/46)


holly (51/35/23)

honeysuckle (1/1/0)

honeywood (1/0/0)

hongmu (1/0/0)

hophornbeam (18/15/12)

hornbeam (8/7/3)

huanghuali (2/0/0)

huayruro (7/5/0)

hububalli (1/0/0)

huckleberry (1/1/0)

huisache (5/3/0)


imbuia (149/94/28)


ipe (92/67/46) with fact sheet

irodo (1/1/1)


iroko (42/22/17) with fact sheet

ironwood, brazilian (6/3/0)


ironwood, desert (49/40/11)

itannin (7/7/7)

ivory wood --- see pau marfim

izambe (14/9/2)



jacaranda amarillo (10/9/3)

jacaranda pardo (14/3/0)

jacareuba (11/6/6)

jarana (1/0/0)


jarrah (36/23/3)

jatai (2/0/0)


jatoba (102/60/21) with fact sheet

jelutong (16/3/0)

jennywood (3/0/0)

jequitiba (12/5/4)

jichimu (1/0/0)

jindavik (1/1/0)

jongkong (1/0/0)


jucaro (30/14/14)

judas tree (4/3/3)

jujube (3/1/0)


juniper (29/13/0)



kabukalli (3/0/0)

kadam (1/1/0)

kadama (1/0/0)

kajarbi (1/1/0)

kalela charm (1/1/0)

kamani (1/0/0)

kamarere (4/2/1)

kambala (1/0/0)

kandis (1/0/0)

kanunda (1/1/0)

kapur (4/1/0)

karri (6/4/1)

kasai (2/0/0)


katalox (88/63/15)

kauri (2/0/0)

kauvula (1/0/0)

kayu malam (1/0/0)

kedang belium (1/0/0)

kedondong (1/0/0)

kekatong (2/1/0)

kekele (10/7/7)

kelat (2/0/0)

keledang (1/0/0)


kelobra (22/14/0) with partial fact sheet

kembang semangkok (1/0/0)

kempas (22/6/4)

keranji (1/0/0)

keruing --- see apitong

keruntum (1/0/0)

ketapang (1/0/0)

kevazinga --- see bubinga

khaya --- see mahogany, african

kiaat --- see muninga

kiawe (1/0/0)


kingwood (107/70/18) with partial fact sheet

kira (1/1/0)

kiwi (2/0/0)

knobthorn (7/6/0)


koa (124/65/6)

koko (1/0/0)

kosipo (3/1/0)

koto (22/15/4)

kulim (2/0/0)

kungkur (1/0/0)


kuruguay (19/17/15)



labbeck (3/3/3)


lacewood (136/93/30)

lapacho --- see ipe

laran (1/0/0)


larch (25/17/6)

lati (7/6/5)


laurel (128/69/11)

leadwood (14/7/0)

lemonwood (3/0/0)

lenge (6/2/2)


leopard (73/49/26)

letterwood --- see snakewood


lignum vitae (51/33/9)

lilac (16/13/9)


limba (115/82/41) with fact sheet

limbali (12/7/7)

lime (1/1/0)

linden --- see basswood

little bone (6/6/3)


locust (130/77/41)

longhi (11/7/7)

lourita (2/1/0)

louro faia (2/0/0)


louro preto (60/37/15)

louro vermelho (4/1/0)

lovoa --- see walnut, african

lychee (7/2/0)


lyptus (38/10/4)



m'ninga (1/1/1)

maca, pink --- see macacauba


macacauba (52/37/16)

macadamia (4/2/0)

macawood --- see macacauba

machang (2/1/0)


machiche (62/47/43) with fact sheet


madrone (97/57/12)


magnolia (28/24/20)

mahang (2/1/0)

mahoe, blue (8/0/0)


mahogany, african (188/139/56) with fact sheet


mahogany, central american (10/8/2)


mahogany, cuban (8/5/0)


mahogany, genuine (46/41/26)


mahogany, honduran (115/91/42)


mahogany, misc (168/72/12)


mahogany, philippine (25/21/11)

mahogany, royal --- see tambran, wild


mahogany, santos (64/50/39)


mahogany, south american (39/22/10)

mahogany, swietenia (1/0/0)

maidau (8/7/0)

maidou (13/11/0)

makai (1/1/0)

makamong (2/2/0)


makore (254/145/51) with fact sheet

malagangai (1/0/0)

malayana (1/1/0)

mallee (22/5/0)

mango (21/8/1)

mangue (16/6/5)

mani amaretto (1/1/0)

mani caramello (1/1/0)

mani latte (1/1/0)

manio (1/1/0)


mansonia (27/14/7)

manzanita (18/6/0)


maple, ambrosia (46/26/12)


maple, bigleaf (71/53/4)


maple, birdseye (68/50/16)


maple, curly (134/94/55)


maple, hard (105/83/31)


maple, misc (194/132/58)


maple, quilted (73/47/6)


maple, soft (12/2/0)


maple, spalted (69/43/9)

maple, western --- see maple, bigleaf


mappa (35/19/1)

mara (2/1/0)


marblewood (34/17/3)

marri (3/2/0)

marupa (4/1/0)

massaranduba --- see bulletwood

mataulat (1/0/0)

matumi (2/2/0)

mbero (1/0/0)

medang (1/0/0)

melantai kuwang (1/0/0)

melia (1/0/0)

melunak (1/0/0)

mempening (1/0/0)

mempisang karai (1/0/0)

menkulang kembang (1/0/0)

meransi (1/0/0)


meranti (29/27/13)

merawan gagil (1/0/0)

merbatu (1/1/0)


merbau (59/24/8) with fact sheet

merbulan (1/1/0)

merpauh (1/0/0)

mersawa (2/0/0)

mertas (1/1/0)


mesquite (74/47/19)

messmate (1/1/0)

mgurure (1/0/0)

milo (1/0/0)

mimosa (6/5/5)

mindi (1/0/0)


moabi (34/20/2)

modrin (1/0/0)

monkey pod (9/6/1)

monkey puzzle (6/5/4)


monterillo (39/13/12)


mopane (25/6/0)

mora (3/1/0)

moradillo (1/1/0)


morado (50/33/14)

morototo (2/1/0)

morrel (3/1/0)


movingui (49/26/9) with fact sheet


mozambique (42/24/7)

muhuhu (1/0/0)

muirapiranga (1/0/0)

muiricatiara --- see goncalo alves


mulberry (98/69/50)

mulga (3/1/0)

munguba (4/2/0)

munguba grande (1/0/0)


muninga (27/15/0)

myall (7/5/0)


myrtle (201/129/25)


mystery (70/68/52)



nanmu (1/0/0)

nargusta (8/5/1)


narra (87/59/23) with partial fact sheet

narrung (1/1/0)

needlewood, ivory (1/0/0)


niangon (16/8/6) with fact sheet

nogal --- see walnut, tropical

nutmeg (2/2/0)

nyalas (1/1/1)

nyalin (1/0/0)

nyatoh (9/6/1)



oak, australian (2/0/0)


oak, bog (40/25/9)

oak, chestnut --- see oak, white


oak, english brown (130/71/33) with partial fact sheet


oak, fishtail (10/6/0)

oak, live --- see oak, red


oak, misc (101/62/35)


oak, red (135/99/43) with fact sheet

oak, silky --- see silky oak


oak, tasmanian (12/1/0)


oak, white (187/131/68) with fact sheet


obeche (18/13/11) with fact sheet

ocle (1/1/0)

ohia (2/1/1)

okoume --- see gaboon

oleo pardo (1/1/0)

oliepod (5/0/0)


olive (160/102/51)

olivillo (1/0/0)

orange agate (5/0/0)

orientalwood (5/5/0)

orindi (1/1/0)


osage orange (127/94/48) with fact sheet

ovangkol (10/5/0)

oxhorn --- see jucaro

ozigo (2/1/0)


padauk (151/110/54) with fact sheet


paela (116/84/54)

pagoda tree (3/2/2)


paldao (61/27/13) with fact sheet

palisander, santos (5/0/0)


palm, black (33/20/3)


palm, red (32/17/0)

palo chino (1/1/0)


palo de vaca (11/6/6)

paloblanco (1/1/0)

panga panga --- see partridgewood

panguan (2/0/0)

panguana (1/0/0)

parapara (1/0/0)

pardoo (1/1/0)


partridgewood (104/79/63)

pau Brazil --- see pernambuco


pau amerello (86/62/34) with partial fact sheet

pau ferro --- see rosewood, santos

pau marfim (17/6/3)

pau oleo (10/7/5)


pau rosa (37/13/0)

pau sangue (1/0/0)

pau santo (10/5/4)


paulownia (23/16/5)

peach (5/0/0)


pearwood (138/73/30)


pecan (56/43/18)

pelajau (1/0/0)

pelin (1/1/1)

penaga (1/0/0)

penarahan (1/0/0)

penyau (1/0/0)

pepperwood (2/2/2)

pequia (9/4/0)

perah (1/0/0)


pernambuco (15/9/3)

peroba rosa (12/7/3)

perota --- see kelobra


persimmon (36/24/19)

perupok (2/1/0)

petai (1/0/0)

petaling (1/0/0)

photinia (2/0/0)

pimento (10/0/0)


pine (127/96/46)

pinjara (1/1/0)

pink flamewood (11/1/0)


pink ivory (63/38/3)

pinkheart (1/0/0)


pistachio (35/16/0)


plum (31/16/6)

pock (1/1/0)

podo (1/0/0)

poon (1/1/0)


poplar (135/110/55)

poui (2/1/0)

praline (6/4/4)

preciosa (1/1/0)


prima vera (97/67/35)

pulai (2/1/0)

punah (1/0/0)


purpleheart (140/88/53) with fact sheet

putumuju (2/1/0)

pyinma (5/3/0)



quebracho (5/2/1)

quina (5/1/0)

quinilla (3/0/0)

quinine (3/3/3)



raintree (4/2/0)

raintree, golden (5/5/4)

rambutan (9/6/0)

ramin (5/4/0)

ramone (8/4/0)

ranggu (1/1/0)

red bloodwood (1/1/1)

red gum --- see gum

redbalau (1/0/0)

redbud (16/13/9)


redheart (95/70/43)


redwood (226/178/55) with fact sheet

rengas (2/1/0)

resak (3/2/1)

rewa-rewa (1/1/1)

rhengas (3/3/2)

rhododendron (1/0/0)


rimu (38/16/5)

rio prieto (3/0/0)


river red gum (44/33/24)

robusta (1/1/0)

rose-of-the-mountain (5/4/3)

rosewood, african --- see etimoe


rosewood, amazon (14/12/2)


rosewood, bolivian (69/49/13)


rosewood, brazilian (129/98/25) with fact sheet


rosewood, camatillo (32/23/0)


rosewood, east indian (140/88/35)


rosewood, honduran (142/112/68)


rosewood, madagascar (24/16/0)


rosewood, misc (73/35/9)


rosewood, santos (106/70/10)

rosewood, senegal (9/9/9)


rosewood, siam (26/19/18)

rosewood, western (3/3/3)

rosita (7/6/1)

roxinho (1/0/0)

rubberwood (1/0/0)



sada (3/3/3)

sandlewood (5/3/0)

sap gum --- see gum


sapele (310/196/80) with fact sheet

sapodilla (9/6/4)

sapucaia (1/0/0)

sarcoloa (1/0/0)


sassafras (83/55/27) with fact sheet

sasswood (1/0/0)


satinwood (125/67/14)

semayur (1/0/0)

sempilor (1/0/0)


sen (68/41/10)

sentang (1/0/0)

senumpul (1/0/0)

sepetir (2/1/1)

serviceberry (8/7/7)

sesendok (1/0/0)


shedua (98/65/23)


sheoak (43/36/5)

shibadan (1/0/0)

shihuahuaco (2/0/0)

silkwood (2/2/0)


silky oak (31/22/22)

simaruba (3/3/3)

simpoh (7/1/0)


sipo (35/28/24)

sirari (8/6/6)

smoketree (4/4/4)


snakewood (53/36/15)

sougue (1/0/0)

sourwood (1/0/0)

spave (1/0/0)


spruce (28/20/11)

stinkwood (1/0/0)

stringybark (4/3/0)


sucupira (52/41/19) with fact sheet

sugarberry (13/10/4)

sugi (6/2/1)


sumac (64/51/45)

sumauma (18/10/4)

swartzia (3/3/0)

sweet gum --- see gum


sycamore (234/163/86) with fact sheet

sycamore, english --- see maple, hard

tallowtree (3/3/3)

tamarack --- see larch

tamarang (1/1/0)

tamarind --- see tambran


tambootie (25/6/0)

tambran, wild (21/16/11)

tampoi (1/0/0)

tanimbuca (1/0/0)

tarragal (1/1/0)


tatajuba (19/13/7)

tauari (4/1/0)

taun (1/1/1)

taxi (1/0/0)

tchitola (16/5/4)


teak (142/71/32) with fact sheet

tembusu (1/0/0)

terang (1/1/0)

terap (1/0/0)

terentang (1/0/0)

tewi (1/1/0)

texas ebony (17/13/0)

thinwin (7/3/3)


thuya (71/57/7)

tiama (19/14/12)

tieli (1/0/0)

tigerwood --- see goncalo alves and zebrawood

timbo (6/3/3)

timborana (22/16/6)

tineo (5/1/0)

tingaring (1/1/0)

tintara (1/1/0)

tonka (5/0/0)

trewilga (1/1/0)

tualang (1/0/0)

tulip, american (6/6/0)


tulipwood (99/75/20) with fact sheet

tupelo (7/5/3)


tzalam (77/28/15)



ukall (1/0/0)

ukola (2/1/0)

ulmo (1/1/0)

umonga (1/0/0)

urundel (2/1/0)

urundey para (2/2/0)

utile --- see sipo

uxi (1/0/0)

vavona --- see redwood


verawood (70/51/17)

verdecillo (15/0/0)

vermillion --- see padauk

viburnum (4/3/3)

virola (3/1/0)

volador (4/3/0)



wallaba (1/0/0)


walnut, african (21/10/1)


walnut, black (324/230/72)


walnut, claro (151/96/8)


walnut, misc (184/76/11)


walnut, tropical (39/25/14)

wamara (12/12/10)

wamba (1/0/0)

wandoo (11/5/0)


wawabima (23/19/15) with fact sheet


wenge (164/105/45) with fact sheet

werribi (1/1/0)

wilkatana (1/1/0)


willow (49/29/16)

willunga (1/1/0)

wondoan (2/2/0)

wumu (1/0/0)



yallata (1/1/0)

yamba (1/1/0)

yarran (1/0/0)

yarrunga (1/1/0)

yate (1/0/0)

yaya (1/1/0)

yellow parrot wood (5/0/0)

yellow tingle (1/1/0)

yellowbox (13/6/0)

yellowheart --- see pau amerello

yemeri (1/0/0)


yew (137/88/24)

yvyrapita (1/1/0)

yvyraro (1/1/0)



zambuca (1/0/0)

zapote (2/2/0)


zebrawood (126/93/49) with fact sheet

zebrelli (3/2/0)

zhazhen (1/0/0)


zircote (142/109/64)

zitan (1/0/0)

zorra (1/1/1)


automatically generated statistics:

# different types of wood represented: 694
# unique pictures of those woods: 19,296
12,458 of those unique pictures have enlargements
5,111 of those enlargements have further enlargements
37,559 total image files (including thumbnails and enlargements)
55,822 total files on this web site (including small HTML files)

205 on main page
257 on page 2
232 on page 3


site notes:

late-2008 --- now up over 19,000 unique pics and have added a lot of single-wood bowl pics and am up to more than 60 full or partial fact sheets.

mid-2008 --- now up over 18,000 unique pics and have added a few more fact sheets.

mid-Aug, 2007 --- added more pics and a couple of new species; now over 17,000 unique pics with over 680 species

March, 2007 --- I just keep adding more pics, mostly of wood that I have purchased.

Dec, 2006 --- pics now at about 16,500+ and I've started to clean out some of about two dozen species that I have identified as duplicates (different common names for the same species)

May,2006 --- have brought pics to 15,000+, added a donation button to help defray site costs, and have added some sponsors for the same reason. Individual wood fact sheets have been increased a litte and summaries have increased a lot, and I have FINALLY gotten around to adding a site map.

Xmas season, 2005 --- continue to add more pics and more end grain shots. Number of unique pics is now approaching 14,000 and I still have many dozens of wood samples that I have not processed yet.

July, 2005 --- added about 120 new end grain shots from my wood-sample boxes taken with an extreme-closeup camera. Also, merged "white" and "black" limbas into one page

June, 2005 --- Added 100's of new pics and several more fact sheets --- my focus now is moving away from more pics and to more text information

May, 2005 --- Added 100's of new pics and made a major navigation change such that enlargements now open in their own window which means you can compare woods by opening more than one enlargement at a time

Xmas season, 2004 --- finally went through my entire backlog of images that I've been stocking up for many months (some of them for years) and added over 50 new species and over 1,000 new unique images to the site, bringing the total up to almost 550 species and over 10,000 unique pics. Also significantly increased both the volumn and the variety of veneer for sale at the Jewlery Box Veneer site, which supports this site.

early Nov, 2004 --- made my first trip to an exotic wood lumber yard in about 10 years and came away with some really gorgeous stuff, which is currently pictured at the top of the main page and which is also now represented throughout the site on the appropriate pages. It took me a whole weekend to take all the pics, color correct them, and post them on the site.

Mid-Aug, 2004 --- have now added enough pics to bring total unique pics to well over 8,000. I've been buying veneer like crazy and taking pics of it, so most of the new pics that I have added personally are veneer, not lumber.

Mid-Dec, 2003 --- have now added enough pics to bring total unique pics to well over 7,000 and I've also posted pics of many more of my laminated bowls

Mid-Sept, 2003 --- have now added enough pics to bring total unique pics to almost 6,000 and I've also posted pics of many more of my laminated bowls

Late July, 2003 --- added hundreds more pics, bringing total unique pics to over 4800

July 2003, added 50 new species and many hundreds more new pics, bringing the total unique pics to about 4,400 for 480 total species. Reorganized main page to improve load time for modem connections, so there are now TWO secondary thumbnail pages and the main page only has about 125 thumbnails instead of over 250. Also added many new fact sheets and greatly expanded the section on wood terms. Made available a separate main page that has ALL of the thumbnails for those with a high speed connection.

June 2003, added hundreds more new pics, bringing the total unique pics to about 3500

May 2003, took end-grain pictures of all my wood samples and color corrected them and added them to the site. this added about 100 unique pictures. Also added a couple hundred more new pics, bringing the total unique pics to over 3000 and total pics to over 6000

Late March / Early May 2003, added several hundred more pictures plus many enlargements and clarified some text throughout and added a section on mystery woods (woods that I can't identify --- submit your own if you have one). Total unique pics now over 2400

Jan/Feb 2003, added many more pics and a little more verbiage plus a section on wood toxicity

Dec 2002, added another 150 species and 800+ unique pics. bringing total unique pics to almost 1800 for almost 400 types of wood

November 2002, added fact sheets, some project pictures, several new species, and many pictures. Unique pictures now over 900 with 230+ species represented and total pics almost 2,000

early November 2002, site opened to public with about 800 unique pictues of over 200 species.