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Africa Andaman Islands annual rings Australia Baltic bark beech beetle birch boards box-wood boxes branches British brown Burma cabinet Canada cedar centuries chestnut COCOBOLO colour construction converted decorative diameter Douglas fir durable ebony Eucalyptus Europe fibres figure figured wood flooring forests furniture girth grain greenheart growth hard hardwoods heartwood heavy home-grown Honduras imported India joinery knots known larch length LIGNUM VITAE logs mahogany maple medullary rays moisture obtained PADAUK panelling pine plane planks plywood poplar produced purposes qualities quantities quarter Queensland radial resembles resistance sapwood SATIN-WOOD sawn Scots pine seasoned shrinkage silky softwoods sometimes SOURCES South America species split spruce square stain straight strength supplies surface sycamore teak term texture thickness timber trade tree tropical turnery usually utilised varieties vary veneers walnut WEIGHT Western red cedar whilst width wood woodwork yellow Zealand