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Hardwood Flooring Species
Wood Image Common Name Janka Origin Description / Color
Doussie
1810
Africa
Doussie is a very popular exotic hardwood with moderate to coarse texture, medium luster, and straight to interlocked graining.
Ebony
3220
Africa
Ebony has a grain that can be straight, curly, or interlocked. The texture is very fine, with a high glossy luster.
Eucalyptus
1125
Australia
Eucalyptus has an interlocking grain, and a coarse texture.
European Beech
1300
Europe
Beech (European) features fine graining and small rays in an attractive range of shades.
Heart Pine
910
North America
Pine (Heart) is a dense and durable wood that shows dark brown knots. It has bold contrasts in the alternating tones of sapwood and heartwood which give it a dynamic appearance.
Hemlock
500
Canada
Hemlock has an uneven twisted grain and has a medium to coarse texture.
Hickory
1820
North America
Hickory has a coarse-texture with a fine grain and is usually straight. It sometimes can be wavy or irregular and is the hardest, heaviest and strongest American wood.
Honduran Mahogany
800
South America
Mahogany (Honduran) is moderately soft, with a straight grain and a fine even texture.
Honduran Rosewood
2200
Central America
Rosewood (Honduran) has a mostly straight grain with a medium to fine texture.
Iroko Kambala
1260
Africa
Iroko/Kambala wood has features with an open pore, interlocked, sometimes irregular graining and a medium to coarse texture.
Jarrah
1910
Australia
Jarrah has a grain that is interlocking or wavy, with a moderate to coarse texture. Fistulina hepatica, a fungus in the wood causes deep brown flecks all through the wood, which enhance its appearance.
Kempas
1710
Asia
Kempas is fairly lustrous, with a coarse texture. Its grain can be interlocked or spiraled.
Lacewood
840
South America
Lacewood features straight to wavy graining with a medium to coarse texture, fair luster, unique patterns of eyes, and rays throughout.
Larch
590
North America
Larch has a coarse texture and a spiraled or twisted grain and resists decay well.
Leopardwood
840
Australia
Leopardwood is stable and tightly grained and features beautiful figuring and high resistance to decay.