tropical hardwood
Dense equatorial timber
Tropical hardwood refers to dense, durable wood harvested from broadleaf trees in equatorial regions—teak, mahogany, rosewood, ebony.
These woods are prized for furniture, flooring, and boat building because of their strength, grain patterns, and resistance to rot and insects.
The deck was built from tropical hardwood.
Harvesting raises environmental concerns due to deforestation in rainforest ecosystems.
- Amazon rainforestLargest tropical forest ecosystem
- tonewoodAcoustically selected lumber
- exotic woodRare imported timber species
- endangered speciesOrganisms facing extinction risk
- durable woodLong-lasting timber material
Ebony · CITES · Congo Basin · old growth · Central Africa · Madagascar · clarinet · guitar body · fine woodworking · timber · Caribbean · heartwood · Pacific Islands · Southeast Asia · sawmill · veneer · wood grain · walnut
- deckingdeck boards, boards, planks, joists, posts
- tropical woodsteak, teakwood, mahogany, ebony, rosewood
- hardwoodsoak, maple, walnut, teak, mahogany
- tree typesdeciduous, evergreen, conifer, broadleaf, softwood
- Philippine architecturebahay kubo, stilt house, Spanish colonial, bamboo house, thatched roof
tropical hardwoodengineered wood
Adhesive-bound timber composite
plywood · MDF · particleboard · laminate · vinyl flooring