timber species 
indeco are pleased to bring you a comprehensive list of Tasmanian Australian timber species plus some locally,Tasmanian, grown exotics. Showing images of the timber, colour, scientific classification and some useful mechanical properties plus articles on quarter-sawn and back-sawn timber and a comparative density chart.
You may view these all at once below or go to the various categories of exotic or Tasmanian and then Tasmanian hardwoods or softwoods.
Articles - timber species
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Banksia
Banksia: banksia marginata. Reddish brown with very conspicuous rays. Botanically a hardwood but actually medium soft. Its striking figure makes it ideal for decorative work. -
Celery Top Pine
Celery Top Pine: phyllocladus asplenifolius. Pale straw colour, fine straight grain, no perceptible taste or odour, ideal for kitchen utensils. -
Cheesewood
Cheesewood: pittosporum bicolour. Off-white to cream colour, dense, hard, stains well. Ideal for kitchen utensils. Tasmanian. -
Ebony
Ebony: diospyrus spp. Famous African, Asian, South-east Asian timber. Black in colour, sometimes streaked with brown. Extremely dense, ideal for fine detail work. -
Elm
Elm: Ulmus spp. Medium to large deciduous hardwoods of Europe, Asia and North America. Also found on many colonial homesteads of Tasmania. Wood pale to darker brown in colour. -
European Ash
European Ash: Fraxinus excelsior. A medium sized hardwood widely distributed in Europe. Wood is creamy white to straw colour with dominant growth rings. -
European Oak
European Oak: quercus spp. Medium sized hardwood of central and western Europe. Timber yellow brown in colour with a dominant ray figure on the radial surface; used for furniture and more famously for cooperage, as in wine barrels. Hence Indeco's use for wine stoppers! -
Goldey Wood
Goldey Wood: monotoca glauca. Golden yellow colour, takes a high polish, fairly dense and hard, Tasmanian -
Huon Pine
Huon Pine: lagarostrobus franklinii. Famous Tasmanian timber. Yellow colour enriching with time, characteristic odour and taste. -
Jarrah
Jarrah: eucalyptus marginata. A large Western Australian hardwood, dark red, fairly dense, very durable. -
Kauri (New Zealand)
Kauri: agathis australis. Famous New Zealand large softwood, pale brown. Very fine even texture, straight grained. Prominent ray fleck on the radial surface. One of the most significant timbers used for cottage and kitchen furniture in Australia from the 1860's till about the outbreak of the second world war. Remember the wonderful scrubbed kauri kitchen table tops of yore We therefore think it should be ideal for our Ned's plats.! -
King William (Billy) Pine
King William (Billy) Pine: athrotaxis selaginoides. Salmon-pink in colour, straight grained, soft. Was used for boat building, also sounding boards in musical instruments. -
London Plane
London Plane: Platinus hispanica. Wood salvaged locally. Large deciduous tree growing to 35 metres tall and 3 metres in circumference. Sometimes marketed as lace wood. -
Monterey cypress (Macrocarpa)
Cupressus macrocarpa: Monterey cypress, now more commonly called Macrocarpa in Australia and New Zealand. This is a species of cypress endemic to the central coast of California around the Monterey Bay area. -
Myrtle
Myrtle: nothofagus cunninghamii. Pink to reddish brown colour, can have a blackheart stain producing a figure known as "tiger Myrtle". -
Native cherry
Native cherry: Exocarpos cupressiformis pink-red-brown coloured hardwood, turns well, large bush or small tree -
Native Olive (Doral)
Native Olive (Doral): notelaea ligustrina. Light cream to brown colour. Contains a natural wax, was used for ships blocks and bearings and the like. Very dense. Tasmanian -
Sassafras
Sassafras: atherosperma moschatum.'Default' wood varies from white to a smokey grey. Its low tannin content made it ideal for clothes pegs but, like myrtle, it can have a distinctive stain which is known as "Blackheart Sassafras" and is highly prized. -
Sassafras, Blackheart
Sassafras, Blackheart: atherosperma moschatum. 'Default' wood varies from white to a smokey grey. Its low tannin content made it ideal for clothes pegs but, like myrtle, it can have a distinctive stain which is known as "Blackheart Sassafras" and is highly prized. -
Sycamore-Maple
Sycamore-Maple: acer pseudoplatanus. A medium to large European hardwood, creamy-white with fine texture and sometimes with wavy grain producing fiddle-back figure.
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