1. Redwood

The so-called "redwood", from the beginning, is not furniture of a specific tree species, but a general term for rare hardwood high-quality furniture since the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Huanghuali: It is a rare and unique tree species in my country. The wood is shiny and has a spicy taste; the textures are slanted and staggered, the structure is thin and even, and it is resistant to corrosion. It has strong durability, heavy material and high strength.

Rosewood: Produced in subtropical areas, such as India and other Southeast Asia. There is a small amount of production in Yunnan, Guangdong and Guangxi and other places in my country. The wood is shiny and fragrant. It turns purple-reddish-brown after being exposed to the air for a long time. It has intertwined textures and textures. It has a dense structure, corrosion resistance, strong durability, and a hard, heavy and delicate material.

Rosewood: distributed in tropical areas around the world, mainly produced in Southeast Asia, South America, and Africa. It has been introduced and cultivated in Hainan, Yunnan and Guangdong and Guangxi regions of my country. The color of the material is relatively uniform, ranging from light yellow to dark reddish brown, with dark stripes visible, shiny, with a slight or significantly light aroma, interlaced texture, fine and even structure (slightly thicker in South America and Africa), wear-resistant, durable, hard and heavy, It has high strength and usually floats in water. Among the rosewood produced in Southeast Asia, Thailand is the best, followed by Myanmar.

Rosewood: Tropical and subtropical areas, mainly produced in Southeast Asian countries. The color of the wood is uneven, with heartwood orange, light reddish brown to dark brown, and dark stripes obvious. The wood is shiny, has a sour taste or aroma, has slanted and staggered textures, high density, greasy content, and is hard and wear-resistant.

Chicken wing wood: Distributed in subtropical areas around the world, mainly produced in Southeast Asia and South America. It is named after its texture similar to "chicken wings". The texture is staggered and unclear, the color is abrupt, the wood has no aroma, and the growth rings are not obvious.

To sum up: the characteristics of "mahogany" furniture are:

2. Oak

Oak belongs to the Quercus genus, which belongs to the beech family, and the heart of the tree is yellow. Brown to reddish brown, with obvious growth rings, slightly wavy, heavy and hard, it is distributed from Jilin in the north, Liaoning to Hainan and Yunnan in the south, but high-quality wood is rare, and high-quality oak still needs to be imported from abroad. The cost of wood is nearly 10,000 yuan per cubic meter, which is also an important reason for the high price of oak furniture.

Characteristics of oak furniture:

Advantages:

1) It has a relatively distinctive mountain-shaped wood grain, and the touch surface has a good texture

Disadvantages:

1) There are relatively few high-quality tree species. If imported, the price will be higher.

2) Due to the hard and heavy texture of oak, it is difficult to remove the water. Furniture made without removing the water will start to deform after a year and a half.

3) The phenomenon of replacing oak with rubber wood is common in the market. If customers lack professional knowledge, it will directly affect the interests of consumers.

3. Rubber wood

Rubber wood is native to Brazil, Malaysia, Thailand, etc. Domestically produced in Yunnan, Hainan and coastal areas, it is the raw material for latex. The color of rubber wood is light yellowish brown, with obvious annual rings, dark bands around the ring boundaries, and very few tube holes. The wooden structure is thick and uniform. The texture is slanted and the wood is hard.

Advantages: Smooth cut surface, easy to glue, good paint coating performance.

Disadvantages: Rubber wood has a peculiar smell and is prone to discoloration, decay and insect infestation due to its high sugar content. It is not easy to dry, not wear-resistant, easy to crack, easy to bend and deform, wood processing is easy, and plate processing is easy to deform.

4. Ash

Ash is mainly produced in Northeast China, North China and other places. It is yellow-white (sapwood) or brownish-yellow (heartwood). The annual rings are obvious but uneven, the wood structure is thick, the texture is straight, the pattern is beautiful, shiny and hard. Manchurian ash has the characteristics of elasticity, good toughness, wear resistance and moisture resistance. But it is difficult to dry and easy to warp. Processability is good, but tearing should be prevented. The cut surface is smooth and the paint has good viscosity properties.

5. Oak

Commonly known as oak wood. Heavy, hard, slow-growing, with clearly differentiated heartwood and sapwood. The texture is straight or oblique, has strong water and corrosion resistance, and is difficult to process. However, the cut surface is smooth, wear-resistant, requires high bonding, and has good paint coloring and finishing properties. Domestic furniture manufacturers mostly use oak wood as raw material.

Domestic manufacturers mostly use oak as furniture materials: Huari, Huafeng, Huifeng, Shuangye

Disadvantages of oak:

1) Slow growth and long growth cycle (hundreds of years) , there are few high-quality tree species.

2) The bonding requirements are very high and it is easy to crack at the joints.

3) The processing is difficult and there are many processing defects.

6. Walnut

Walnut is one of the better types of wood, mainly produced in North America and Europe. Domestic walnut wood is lighter in color. Black walnut is light dark brown with purple color, and its chord section has a beautiful large parabolic pattern (big mountain pattern). Black walnut is very expensive, and veneer is usually used to make furniture, and solid wood is rarely used.

7. Cherry wood

Imported cherry wood is mainly produced in Europe and North America. The wood is light yellowish brown, with elegant texture. The chord section has a medium parabolic pattern with small circles in between. Cherry wood is also a high-grade wood, and veneer is usually used to make furniture, and solid wood is rarely used.

8. Maple

Maple is divided into two types: soft maple and hard maple. It is a temperate wood and is produced from the south of the Yangtze River Basin to Taiwan. It is produced abroad in the eastern United States. The wood is gray-brown to gray-red, with inconspicuous growth rings, many and small pores, and evenly distributed. Maple wood has interlaced grains, thin and uniform structure, light but hard texture, and fine patterns. Easy to process, the cut surface is not smooth, and it is easy to warp when dry. The paint has good coating performance and strong adhesion. Mainly used for laminating thin surfaces of boards.

9. Birch

Birch has slightly obvious annual rings, straight and obvious texture, delicate, soft and smooth material structure, and soft or moderate texture. Birch is highly elastic, prone to cracking and warping when dry, and is not wear-resistant. It has good processing performance, smooth cut surface, and good painting and gluing properties. Often used for carved parts, but less commonly used now. The easy-to-divide feature is multiple "water lines" (black lines). Birch is a mid-range wood, and both solid wood and veneer are common. Produced in Northeast China and North China, the wood is fine, white and slightly yellow, and the fibers have poor shear resistance and are prone to "stubble breakage". There are many patterns on its roots and nodes. The ancients often used it to make door cores and other decorations. Its bark is pliable and beautiful. Pu people are very sentimental about this and often inlay scabbards on the bowed back and other places. However, its wood is juicy and often deforms after it is matured, so it is rare to see tables and chairs made entirely of birch wood.

10. Beech

Heavy, strong, impact-resistant, easy to bend under steam, can be made into shapes, has good nail performance, but easy to crack. It is a wood unique to Jiangnan, with clear texture, uniform wood texture, soft and smooth tone. Heavier than most hardwoods, it is prone to cracking when kiln dried and processed.

11. Pine

Pine is a coniferous plant (common coniferous plants include pine, fir, and cypress). It has a pine aroma, a light yellow color, and many boils. , responds quickly to atmospheric temperature, easily swells, and is extremely difficult to dry naturally. Therefore, it needs to be artificially processed, such as drying, degreasing to remove organic compounds, bleaching to unify the tree color, and neutralizing the tree properties to make it less likely to deform.

New Zealand pine (Chile): light yellow in color, straight texture, easy to dry, small deformation, medium mechanical strength, good processing performance, suitable for making furniture and various wood products.

Argentinian pine: yellowish in color, relatively high density, easy to crack, and obvious color difference

Brazilian pine (Uruguay): light yellow in color, clear texture, medium mechanical strength, suitable for production Furniture and various wood products.

Russian pine: It is the same product as Northeastern pine, but it is just because of the different national boundaries. Therefore, if it is said to be Russian pine, there is no need to import it. There are many types of Northeastern pine, including red pine (longer growth period, finer texture, and reddish color), and white pine (shorter growth period, thicker texture). There are many types of white pine. Pinus sylvestris, ichthyosaur pine, and lengsha are all northeastern pine. Pinus sylvestris is easy to change color, and lengsha is the worst quality pine among them and has little use at all.

12. Schefflera

Domestic Schefflera is produced in provinces and regions south of the Yangtze River Basin, and foreign Schefflera is produced in the eastern and southern states of the United States. The sapwood is yellowish white, and the heartwood is grayish brown or grass green. The annual rings are slightly obvious, with light-colored lines between them, and the tube holes are of the same size and evenly distributed. The texture is staggered into a plate, the structure is very fine, uniform and shiny.

Goosefoot wood is easy to process and has a smooth planed surface. It dries quickly without cracking. It is suitable for use as carved parts and has good paint and glue properties.

13. Poplar

The wood commonly used in northern my country is fine, soft, stable, cheap and easy to obtain. It is often used as an accessory for elm furniture and as a fetal bone for lacquer furniture on ancient furniture. This poplar is also called "small-leaf poplar". It often has a joke-like luster, so it is also called "satin poplar". It is not the kind of Soviet poplar, big-leaf poplar, poplar euphratica, etc. that were introduced in the middle of this century. Poplar often has a "smell" and is lighter and softer than birch. Birch has a slight fragrance and often has very fine brown-black water-soaked lines. This is the difference between the two.

14. Dumu

Also known as "Duli wood", it is earthy gray in color, the wood is delicate and unpretentious, and there is little difference in horizontal and vertical textures, making it suitable for carving. In the old days, this wood was often used to carve wooden boards and seals. I have seen miniature carvings of trademarks used by Shanxi merchants. The figures, boats and carriages, mountains, rivers, houses, etc. are extremely exquisite within a square inch, and there are hundreds of tiny characters on them, which is breathtaking. This version is carved from Du Mu.

15. Cypress

Cypress has a fragrance that can be used as medicine, and cypress seeds can soothe the mind and replenish the mind. Whenever people step into the lush Berlin, look at its nine-curved branches, inhale the fragrance that fills the heart and spleen, and think of the cold-resistant and evergreen character of these thousand-year-old trees, it is easy to purify people's souls. From this we can see the situation when the ancients used cypress wood to make furniture. Cypress wood is yellow in color, fine in texture, fragrant in flavor, resistant to water, and has many knots, so it is often used as "cypress rice cake" among the people. The best coffins are also made of cypress wood, which is more resistant to corrosion. The famous "Huang Chang Ti Cou" in the tombs of ancient kings unearthed at Dabaotai in Beijing is a barrier made of thousands of cypress logs stacked neatly. It can be used for aroma and antisepsis. It can be seen that its level among wood plants is high.

16. Catalpa wood

Folks call the fruitless walnut wood Catalpa wood. The arrangement of the brown eyes of the catalpa wood is plain, dark in color, soft and less lustrous, but its shrinkage is small, so it can be used for cooking. Used for door cores, desktop cores, etc. Often used in conjunction with Korean wood and walnut wood. Catalpa wood is lighter in weight than walnut wood, has a darker color, is pine in texture, and has large and scattered brown eyes, which are the main points of difference.

17. Walnut wood

Luliang and Taihang Mountains in Shanxi are rich in walnuts. Walnut wood is the best wood for Jin furniture. The wood is polished and waxed. It will have a luster like hardwood, its texture is delicate and non-toxic, easy to carve, and its color is gray and soft. Its products were produced in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and most of them were of excellent quality. Available and hidden. Its woody features are only fine, needle-like brown eyes and light yellow filament-like growth rings. Weight and elm etc.

18. Camphor wood

It is found in all provinces south of the Yangtze River in my country, and is abundant in Fujian, Taiwan. The tree diameter is larger, the wood is wider, the pattern is beautiful, and especially it has a strong fragrance, which can keep insects away. Our country's camphor wood boxes are famous both at home and abroad, including suitcases, lying boxes (court clothes boxes), top boxes and other varieties. Only tables and chairs are mostly in the Beijing category. In the old wood industry, camphor wood is divided into several types according to its shape, such as red camphor, tiger bark camphor, sassafras, rosewood camphor, watercress camphor, white camphor, ship board camphor, etc.

19. Phoebe

It is a very high-grade wood with a light orange-yellow and slightly gray color. The texture is elegant and quiet. The texture is gentle and soft, without shrinkage. It has a faint fragrance when it rains. . All southern provinces produce it, but Sichuan produces the best. The Ming Dynasty court used it extensively. Nowadays, most of the Forbidden City in Beijing and the finest ancient buildings in the capital are constructed of nanmu. Nanmu is not rotten and has a delicate fragrance. The royal library, gold lacquer throne, interior decoration, etc. are mostly made of Nanmu. Important buildings such as Wenyuan Pavilion, Leshou Hall, Taihe Hall, Changling and other important buildings have nanmu decoration and furniture, and are often used in conjunction with red sandalwood. It's a pity that many people today don't know it. They often view it with a fetishistic mentality. They feel that the quality is not strong or heavy, and the color is not deep or bright, so they abandon it. Insiders regard its texture as the following names: golden nan, douban nan, fragrant nan, and gentian nan. In addition, among the people in Shanxi and other places, hardwoods such as mahogany, pineapple, and pear are often called "Nanmu", which originally means wood from the south. At first glance, it sounds very easy to be confused with this "nanmu", which is important to know.