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aliform American beech beetles Bending strength Blunting effect average boxwood Britain brown Buxus cedar cent colour conifers Cordia Dalbergia darker Density 3 Bending Diospyros Douglas fir drying Durability 4 Blunting ebony effect average Vessels effect below average Entandrophragma Europe European figure on radial finish forest glue Growth rings Growth rings indistinct Guarea Hardness 3 Durability heartwood high quality Impact strength interlocked grain iroko irregular grain joinery Khaya late wood logs mahogany maple medium meranti million moderately North America Norway spruce padauk pale Parenchyma Parenchyma vasicentric particle board pine Pinus plane plywood Podocarpus produce Quercus radial surfaces reddish-brown resin rosewood sapele sapwood sawn Scots pine seasoning service above average service average Hardness short radial chains softwood solitary sometimes species spruce Stability in service Stiffness 4 Impact strength 3 Stiffness sweet chestnut sycamore teak timber tree turnery Ulmus variable vessels per ray Vessels small walnut West Africa