What wood is good?

1. rosewood: produced in India, Philippines, Guangdong, Malay Peninsula and Thailand. It is a deciduous tree belonging to the family Xiaoqiao, sometimes evergreen. Its bark is gray-green, its trunk is curved, and there are few materials. It is difficult to get long trees with large diameters. The sapwood is narrow, dense and hard, and sinks when entering the water. The heartwood is bright red or orange, and becomes purple-brown stripes after long-term exposure to the air. The texture is delicate and floating, with endless changes, and the fragrance is fragrant. At the same time, it is also a precious medicinal material. Chairs and sofas made of it also have therapeutic effects. Narra, p.echinatus in the Philippines), padauk, p.dalbergoides in andaman islands), bloodwood p.angolensis in Africa, Draco and rosewood in Latin America, p.indicus China, and India. 2. Huanghua pear: also known as Dalbergia odorifera, the color ranges from light yellow to purple, the wood is solid, the pattern is beautiful and the smell is fragrant. When it was sawed, it was full of fragrance. The material is very large, and some major cases are two or three feet long and more than two feet wide, so the face and heart can be undivided. It is the main material for studying furniture in the early Ming Dynasty. 3. Huali/Li Xinhua: It is produced in China, Fujian, Guangdong and Yunnan, and also imported from Myanmar and Thailand in large quantities. The wood color of Huangchi is thicker than that of Huanghua pear, but the grain is straight, slightly worse than that of Huanghua pear, and there is no pleasant fragrance. Sawdust is green when soaked in water. When hands are wet, it is easy to be infected and slightly toxic. 4. Chicken wing wood: also known as Qizimu, Railway Wood and Wen Ding Wood, it is produced in Southeast Asian countries such as Myanmar, Thailand, India and Viet Nam. Also divided into old and new. Old chicken wing wood has dense texture, purple and brown stripes, especially the slightly inclined longitudinal section, which gives people the feeling of gorgeous feathers, just like chicken wings. Compared with rosewood and rosewood, Taiwan Province rosewood has less output, and wood grain is unique, which is cherished by the world for its rare existence and beautiful charm. The wood of the new Pteris cristata is rough and purple-black, and the texture is often unclear, hard and has no tendency to rotate. Sometimes the wood is easy to crack and stubble. Wood is bright yellow when cut and turns brown or dark brown when exposed to air. Porous materials and small tubular pores contain black colloid, sediment or permeate. Although the wooden structure is thick, the cross-sectional pattern is beautiful. The three colors of black, white and purple in the pattern constitute Lu Hua's rooster feather. Wood is hard and difficult to process, and the price is higher than that of ordinary mahogany furniture. After the mid-Qing Dynasty, there were few old chicken wings for furniture, but red beans are still used in modern times. 5. Tielimu: also known as Tielimu, Shiyan, Tieleng and Tiechestnut. It is the highest and most valuable of several hardwoods. A tall evergreen tree with an upright trunk, up to ten feet high and a diameter of about ten feet, native to India. Li Tie is very much like the color of chicken wing wood. In fact, iron pear wood has rough texture and obvious mane eyes, which is not difficult to distinguish from Jiyi wood. 6. Ebony: Also known as ebony, black horn and ebony, it is produced in India, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar and other countries. The heartwood is black (pure black or slightly emerald green) and irregular black, the annual rings are not obvious, the hollow tube is very small, the wood is shiny, there is no special smell and taste, the structure is fine and uniform, the material is hard and heavy, oily, soaked in water, the color is black and brittle, it is thin like rosewood, and there are few large pieces. Ebony (the second kind) is a common name for dark wood in Sichuan, not the natural black wood in Africa. The natural variation of celestial bodies in ancient Sichuan is that from 2000 to 10000 years ago, all plants and creatures on the ground were buried in low-lying places such as ancient river beds by earthquakes, floods and mudslides. Some trees buried in the soil are formed by carbonization for thousands or even tens of thousands of years under the conditions of hypoxia and high pressure and under the action of microorganisms such as bacteria, so they are also called "carbonized wood". News _ Content "The magical Sanxingdui ebony, like the world-famous Sanxingdui cultural relics, is a precious heritage of human beings in Sichuan, an important part of ancient Shu civilization, and is known as a living fossil. Ebony is mainly distributed in four major rivers and their tributaries in Sichuan. Many ebony lovers have taken samples for carbon 14 isotope determination, and most ebony dates from more than 2,000 years ago to 40,000 years ago. It can be seen that ebony has experienced vicissitudes and suffered from various natural external and internal forces, making its natural form weird, simple, elegant and graceful. It is no wonder that foreigners are amazed as "Oriental Shenmu" after visiting. The ancient riverbed near Sanxingdui is one of the most concentrated producing areas of ebony. According to charcoal 14 of the inspection center of China Geo University, ebony is 3,200 years old. My ebony collection is only 10 km away from Sanxingdui. There are many kinds of ebony, including: willow, green bar tree, camphor tree, nanmu (Phoebe bournie and Phoebe nei), Toona sinensis, red bean bin, coriaria, willow, phellodendron amurense, Sophora japonica and sandalwood. Generally, ebony can be formed by tree species with fragrance and bactericidal properties. A big ebony tree with a diameter of 3 meters was also found in Mianyuanhe area of Deyang City, which shows how beautiful and spectacular the ancient ecological environment is. Ebony is hard, mostly brown-black, black-red, gold and yellow-brown. Its section is smooth and the wood grain is fine, which can be polished to mirror brightness. Some ebony trees are similar in nature to rosewood. It never fades, does not rot, does not produce insects, and is an ideal material for making works of art and antique furniture. Archaeologists deciphered the mystery of a large number of ivory unearthed in Sanxingdui by restoring the living environment at that time with Samsung ebony. It is the spirituality of ebony that the teachers in the Palace Museum decided that ebony has a remarkable function of promoting blood circulation and prolonging life. Shu people regard it as a treasure to ward off evil spirits and receive happiness. Because ebony is a non-renewable resource, the development amount is less and less, and some natural ebony artworks are of great collection value. 7. Ebony: Indonesia origin. Shanghainese call it Lvmu. Its characteristics and wood properties are similar to ebony. Its texture is shallow and staggered. Its structure is thin, hard and heavy, and it feels greasy. It usually sinks into the water. 8. Redwood: At present, it is the most common hardwood, but it began to be widely used after the mid-Qing Dynasty. When Huang Huali and old maple became scarce, it was imported in large quantities. There is also the name of purple elm, which is called "acid branch" in Guangdong, while mahogany is a popular name in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and North China. Produced in India, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and other Southeast Asian countries, it is one of the precious tree species of Dalbergia. Its heartwood is orange, light reddish brown, reddish brown, purplish red, purplish brown to dark brown, with uneven color and obvious dark stripes. It is hard, wear-resistant and can be submerged in water. Redwood is also divided into old and new. Old redwood is similar to rosewood, but it is darker in luster, lighter in color, denser and lighter in texture, and has fragrance, but not as fragrant as huanghuali. This new kind of mahogany is reddish in color and patterned, sometimes resembling Huang Huali, and now it is imported in large quantities. 9. Gall wood: also known as shadow wood, shadow wood is not a specific tree species, but refers to the gall caused by tree illness, which is the result of wood proliferation. Its wood is knotty, shrinking into bird and beast patterns in the landscape, and some wood grains form small grape patterns and stems and leaves, which are called "full-frame grapes", which are very ornamental and are the best decorative materials. There are many kinds of eucalyptus, such as Huamu Gall, Nanmu Gall, Elm Gall, Zhangmu Gall, Huali and so on. 10. Zelkova schneideriana: Zelkova schneideriana has thick wood, beautiful color patterns and a long age. When the wood is red, it is specially named as Zelkova sinensis. Beijingers call beech wood Nanyu, and Nanyu furniture handed down from generation to generation is pure Ming style. The manufacturing method is the same as that of Huang Huali and Chicken Wingwood. Some of them have strong folk flavor and unique style, and their historical and artistic value should not be inferior to other precious wood. 1 1. nanmu: There are many kinds of nanmu, with elegant and even color, small elasticity, easy operation, durability and stability, and it is the best one among non-hardwood trees. In the Ming and early Qing dynasties, furniture was often used with several hardwoods in addition to nanmu. Another feature of Nanmu is that it has more galls than other trees except Hua Mu, so most of the galls used in furniture in the early Ming and Qing dynasties were Nanmu galls. It has been paid attention to since ancient times and recorded frequently. It was once called "Dice White South", "Door White South" and "Door Half South", and it was described as "full of grapes" because of its exquisite and gorgeous patterns. Most of these nanmu galls were dissected from the roots of Nanmu in western Sichuan. There are three kinds of nanmu: one is Xiangnan, which is purplish, fragrant and beautiful in texture; Second, Jin Sinan with gold thread in the wood grain is the best nanmu. What is even more rare is that some nanmu materials form natural landscape graphics. Third, nanmu wood is soft and often used to make furniture. 12. Birch: Betula davurica, six feet tall, produced in Hebei, Liaoning, Jilin and other places, with light brown wood and dense and shiny texture, which is rougher than other tree species; Birch, another name of Castanopsis eyrei, is a small tree, which is produced in Hebei, Henan, Liaoning and other places. Wood is white at first, then reddish brown, shiny, solid and dense, which is the crown of wood in northern China, commonly known as south rosewood and north Castanopsis eyrei. Birch has a rotating pattern, and the board is also large, slightly heavier and harder, easy to process and smooth in section, which is suitable for carving and making all kinds of furniture. 13. Buxus microphylla: also known as Buxus microphylla, an evergreen shrub or small tree, produced in Central China, with light yellow wood, light green wood with stripes in old age, extremely dense quality, not easy to split, slow growth and no big trees. Usually used to make wooden combs and engravings, and also used as mosaic materials for furniture. In the Ming and early Qing dynasties, furniture was used to combine with hardwood to make parts such as bricks and teeth, or to make mosaic patterns. 14. Thuja: The wood is yellow, heavy, fine and even, similar to boxwood, tough, dense and fragrant, and can be used for carving and stationery. It has unbreakable durability and long storage period, and can be used in formwork and civil engineering. 15. camphor tree (Cinnamomum camphora). The diameter is as large as 10 ft. 5 ft., the bark is yellowish brown, the heartwood is reddish brown, the sapwood is grayish brown, the texture is delicate, the pattern is exquisite, and it is not easy to deform. Can be used for carving, produced in southeast coastal provinces of China, especially in Fujian and Taiwan Province provinces, but also in Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei and other provinces. Wood is fragrant and can avoid pests. For a long time, it was used as a box, box, cabinet, cupboard, or hardwood. Its value is lower than nanmu. 16. Oak wood: It is produced in Liaodong, China, and it is also very fresh, so the old craftsmen in Beijing used to call it "Korean wood". The wood is tough, and there are dark stripes with a length of 1-2 cm in the light texture. There is a lot of information on it for reference. I think it's practical and can save a lot of trouble.