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

Huanghuali: a rare and unique tree species in China. Wood is shiny and spicy; Arts and sciences are interlaced, with thin and uniform structure and corrosion resistance. Strong durability, hard and heavy material and high strength.

Rosewood: produced in subtropical areas, such as Southeast Asia such as India. China's Yunnan, Guangdong and Guangxi all have a small amount of production. Wood is shiny and fragrant, and turns purple-red and brown after being exposed to the air for a long time. It is interwoven with arts and sciences, with dense structure, corrosion resistance, strong durability and hard, heavy and delicate materials.

Rosewood: It is distributed in tropical regions of the world, mainly in Southeast Asia, South America and Africa. Hainan, Yunnan, Guangdong and other places have introduced and cultivated. Wood is uniform in color, from light yellow to dark reddish brown, with dark stripes, luster, slight or obvious faint fragrance, staggered in texture, fine and uniform in structure (slightly coarse in South America and Africa), durable, hard and high in strength, and usually floats in water. Among rosewood produced in Southeast Asia, Thailand is the best, followed by Myanmar.

Mahogany: Tropical and subtropical regions, mainly produced in Southeast Asian countries. The color of wood is uneven, the heartwood is orange, light reddish brown to dark brown, and dark items are obvious. Wood has luster, sour taste or sour fragrance, arts and sciences crisscross, high density, greasy, hard and wear-resistant.

Chicken wing wood: it is distributed in the subtropical region of the world, mainly in Southeast Asia and South America, and is named after its texture is similar to "chicken wings". The texture is not clear, the color is abrupt, the wood is odorless, and the growth rings are not obvious.

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

2. Oak

Oak belongs to Quercus acutissima, belonging to the beech family. Its core is yellow-brown to reddish-brown, and its growth rings are obvious and slightly wavy. It is heavy and hard. It is distributed in China, Jilin and Liaoning in the north and Hainan and Yunnan in the south. However, high-quality oak still needs to be imported from abroad, and the price of oak furniture is nearly 10 thousand yuan per cubic meter.

Characteristics of oak furniture:

Advantages:

1) has obvious mountain-shaped wood grain, and the touch surface has a good texture.

2) high-grade, suitable for European furniture.

Disadvantages:

1) There are few high-quality tree species, and if imported, the price is higher.

2) Because oak is hard and heavy, it is difficult to remove water, and it takes a year and a half for furniture made without water to begin to deform.

3) The phenomenon that rubber wood replaces oak is widespread 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 and so on. Produced in Yunnan, Hainan and coastal areas, it is the raw material of latex. Rubber wood is light yellow-brown, with obvious annual rings, dark bands on the rim and few tube holes. The wooden structure is thick and uniform. The texture is oblique and the wood is hard.

Advantages: smooth section, easy adhesion and good painting performance.

Disadvantages: Rubber wood has an odor, and it is easy to change color, rot and be eaten by insects because of its high sugar content. Not easy to dry, not wear-resistant, easy to crack, easy to bend and deform, easy to process wood, easy to deform when processing plates.

4. Fraxinus mandshurica

Fraxinus mandshurica is mainly produced in northeast and north China of China. It is yellowish white (sapwood) or slightly yellowish brown (heartwood). The annual rings are obvious but uneven, with thick wooden structure, straight texture, beautiful patterns, luster and high hardness. Fraxinus mandshurica has the characteristics of elasticity, toughness, wear resistance and moisture resistance. But it's hard to dry and easy to warp. Good processability, but to prevent tearing. Smooth section, painted, good adhesion.

5.oak tree

Commonly known as oak. Heavy, hard, slow-growing, clear heartwood. The texture is straight or oblique, with strong water resistance and corrosion resistance, which is difficult to process, but the cutting surface is smooth and wear-resistant, which requires high adhesion and good paint coloring and finishing performance. Domestic furniture manufacturers mostly use oak as raw material. Domestic manufacturers mostly use oak as furniture materials: Huari, Huafeng, HSBC and Shuang Ye.

Disadvantages of oak:

1) has slow growth, long growth cycle (hundreds of years) and few high-quality tree species.

2) The cementing requirements are very high, and the joints are easy to crack.

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

6. Walnut

Walnut is a kind of superior wood, mainly produced in North America and Europe. Walnut made in China is lighter in color. Black walnut is light dark brown with purple, and the cutting surface is a beautiful large parabolic pattern (mountain pattern). Black walnut is very expensive. Furniture is generally made of wood skin, rarely solid wood.

7.cherry wood

Imported cherry wood is mainly produced in Europe and North America, with light yellow-brown wood and elegant texture. The tangential section has a medium parabolic pattern with small circles. Cherry wood is also high-grade wood, furniture generally uses wood skin, rarely uses solid wood.

8. Maple

Maple can be divided into soft maple and hard maple, belonging to temperate wood, which is produced from the south of the Yangtze River valley to Taiwan Province Province and the eastern United States. The wood is grayish brown to grayish red, the annual rings are not obvious, and the official holes are numerous, small and evenly distributed. The maple pattern is staggered, the structural kidney is thin and uniform, light and hard, and the pattern is excellent. Easy to process, the section is not smooth, and it is easy to warp when drying. The coating has good coating performance and strong adhesion. It is mainly used for pasting the thin surface of plate.

9.birch

Birch rings are slightly obvious, the texture is straight and obvious, the material structure is delicate, soft and smooth, and the texture is soft or moderate. Birch is elastic, easy to crack and warp when dry, and not wear-resistant. Good processability, smooth cross section, good painting and gluing performance. It is often used in carved parts, but it is used less now. The notable feature is a number of "waterlines" (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 delicate, pale white and yellowish, and the fiber has poor shear resistance and is easy to "break". Its roots and knots have many patterns. The ancients often used it for decoration such as door cores. Its bark is flexible and beautiful. Pu people are very touched by this, and often inlay scabbard and bow back. Only its wood is juicy and deformed when it becomes wood, so it is rare to see all tables and chairs made of birch.

10.beech

Heavy, strong, impact resistant, easy to bend under steam, and can be made into various shapes. Nails have good properties, but they are easy to crack. It is unique to Jiangnan, with clear texture, uniform texture and soft and smooth timbre. It is heavier than most hardwoods and easy to crack when it is dried and processed in a kiln.

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Pine is a coniferous tree species (common coniferous tree species are pine, Chinese fir and cypress), which has the characteristics of pine fragrance, yellowish color, many boils, quick response to atmospheric temperature, easy expansion and extremely difficult natural air drying, so it needs manual treatment, such as drying, degreasing to remove organic matter, bleaching to unify tree color, neutralizing tree properties and making it difficult to deform.

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

Argentine pine: yellow in color, relatively high in density, easy to crack and obvious in color difference.

Brazilian pine (Uruguay): Yellow color, clear arts and sciences, medium mechanical strength, suitable for making furniture and various wood products.

Russian pine: It's the same product as Northeast pine, but the border is different, so if Russian pine is used, it doesn't need to be imported at all. There are many kinds of pine trees in Northeast China, including Korean pine (with long growth period, fine texture and red color) and white pine (with short growth period and thick texture). White pine includes many kinds. Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica. Mongolian pine, fish scale pine and cold sand are all northeast pine. Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica. Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica is easy to change color, and cold sand is one of the worst pine trees, which is useless at all.

12. Liriodendron

China Liriodendron is produced in the provinces south of the Yangtze River valley, and foreign Liriodendron is produced in the eastern and southern states of the United States. The sapwood is yellow and white, and the heartwood is grayish brown or grass green. The annual rings are slightly obvious, the lines are light, and the pore size is uniform and evenly distributed. The texture is staggered into a board, and the structure is very thin and uniform, and it is shiny.

Liriodendron is easy to process, and the plane is smooth. Dry quickly without cracking, suitable for carving, painting and gluing.

13. Poplar

Wood commonly used in northern China is soft, stable and cheap. In ancient furniture, it is often used as the accessory of elm furniture and the fetal bone of lacquer furniture. This is the so-called poplar, also known as "Populus simonii", which often has a piece of luster, so it is also called "satin poplar", not the kind of Su Yang, Populus euphratica and Populus euphratica introduced in the middle of this century. Poplar often has a "coquettish taste", which is lighter and softer than birch. On the other hand, birch has a slight fragrance and often has very fine brown-black water stains. This is the difference between the two.

14. Du Mu

Also known as "Li Dumu", the color is grayish yellow, the wood is delicate and unpretentious, and the vertical and horizontal textures are not much different, so it is suitable for carving. In the past, this kind of wood was used to carve boards and stamps. I have seen the micro-carved trademark lettering used by Shanxi Commercial Bank. People, ships, mountains and rivers, houses and so on within one square inch are extremely exquisite, and there are hundreds of small words on them, which are amazing. This edition is Du Mu's engraving.

15. Cedar

Cedar has a fragrance that can be used as medicine. Cedar can soothe the nerves and replenish the heart. Whenever people step into the lush Berlin, look at its colorful branches, breathe the fragrance that secretes people's hearts, and think of the cold-resistant and evergreen characteristics of these thousand-year-old trees, it is easy to purify people's hearts. So we can see that the ancients used cypress as furniture. Cedar is yellow, thin, fragrant, water-resistant and knotty, so people often regard it as "cypress". A good coffin is also made of cypress, which is rot-resistant. The famous "yellow intestine puzzle" in the tomb of the ancient king unearthed in Dabaotai, Beijing, is a barrier made up of thousands of cypress squares stacked neatly. It can be fragrant or antiseptic. It can be seen that its level in wood planting is very high.

16. Catalpa bungei

Folks call unfruitful walnuts "Juglans mandshurica". Juglans mandshurica has a dull brown eye arrangement, soft dark color and weak luster, but the shrinkage rate is small, so it can be used as door core, desktop core and so on. Commonly used in Han wood and walnut. Compared with walnut, Catalpa bungeana is lighter in weight, darker in color, looser in texture, and large and scattered in brown eyes, which is the main difference.

17. Walnut

Lvliang and Taihang Mountain are rich in walnuts. Walnut is the first-class material for making furniture in Jin Dynasty, which has been polished by water mill and waxed. It will have a hardwood-like luster, delicate and asexual texture, easy to carve, and elegant and soft color. Its products are available in Ming and Qing dynasties, and most of them are excellent. Available and hidden. Its wooden features are only fine needle-like brown eyes and yellowish filiform annual rings. Weight and elm, etc.

18. camphor wood

There are all provinces south of the Yangtze River in China, and Taiwan Province Province and Fujian are rich in them. The tree diameter is larger, the wood width is wider, the pattern is beautiful, especially it has a strong fragrance, which can drive away insects. China's camphor wood boxes are well-known at home and abroad, including suitcases, sleeping boxes (suitcases), top boxes and cabinets. Only tables and chairs are mostly in Beijing. In the old wood industry, camphor wood is divided into several types according to its shape, such as camphor, camphor tree, camphor tree, camphor tree, camphor tree, camphor tree and so on.

19. nanmu

It is a very high-grade wood, with light orange-yellow and slightly gray color, elegant and quiet texture, warm and soft texture, no shrinkage, and a faint fragrance when it rains. All the southern provinces have production, but Sichuan is the best. In the Ming Dynasty, it was widely used by the imperial court. Now the Forbidden City in Beijing, the first-class ancient buildings in Beijing, are mostly built of nanmu. Nanmu is not rotten and fragrant. The Royal Library, with its golden painted throne, is decorated mostly with nanmu. Such as Wenyuan Pavilion, Leshou Hall, Hall of Supreme Harmony, Changling and other important buildings have nanmu decoration and furniture, which are often used with rosewood. It's a pity that many people don't understand it now, and often regard it as a sacred object. They think that the quality is not strong or heavy, and the color is not dark or bright, so they abandon it. The insiders' comments on its texture are as follows: Jin Sinan, Minnan, Minnan and Gentiana. In addition, in Shanxi and other places, hardwoods such as redwood and yellow pear are often called "Nanmu", the original meaning should be wood from the south. At first glance, it is easy to be confused with this "Nanmu".