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The Best Wild Woods in Australia
Australian woods a specialty, including those below and many more.
• Gidgee (ringed, figured) and coloured gidgee species (black, brown and purple)
• The best figured and lustrous Blackwood
• Lancewood and Bendee, fine brown woods
• Striking fine textured orange Conkerberry
• Tiger-striped, pink Myrtle Beech, rare figure from cool rainforests
• Tough Hickory Wattles from coastal forests
• Wirewood and Desert Oak with dark heart and yellow sapwood
• Desert Rosewood (Boonaree)
• Ivorywood like fine boxwood, for inlays and small projects
• Borree and Myalls, dark, fragrant and fine, yet heavy
• Supplejack Vinetree, dense and related to pink ivory (but not pink!)
• Figured and colourful Eucalyptus species including Coolibah, Boxes, Black Iron Box
• Australian Ebonies, some even with a black heartwood
• Fragrant and fine desert Sandalwoods and Quandong
• Ironwoods (various) for exceedingly hard and coloured woods
• Lignums and Snakewoods speak for themselves!
• Quinine, with a grey-brown heartwood
• Goldenwood, and golden and striped Tulip Satinwood are true to their names
• Desert Mulgas, legendary woods favoured by aborigines and early woodworkers
• Banksia and Hakeas, softer but pretty with oak-like rays
• Flame Sheoak (very striking), hard Bull Oak and other Sheoaks and Casuarinas
• Australian Black Walnut , also called Orientalwood, is a dark grey-brown with lighter and darker streaks
• Canary Sassafras, Yellowwood, Soft Cheesewood, Yellow Walnut : all these species are coloured yellow, yellow-green to yellow-orange, most hold their colour well.
• Tulip Oaks and Ivory Needlewood - all very different to true oaks
• Black Bean
• Dead Finish
• Purplehearts, and many, many others.
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