Yellow Poplar Uses: Lumber goes mostly into furniture, interior finish, siding, and structural components. Boxes, pallets, and crates are made of lower grade stock. Description: The sapwood is white and frequently several inches thick. The heartwood is yellowish-brown, sometimes streaked with purple, green, black, blue, or red. These colorations do not affect the physical properties […]
White Oak Uses: White oak is used for furniture, railroad crossties, cooperage, mine timbers, flooring, pallets, railroad cars, millwork and many other products. An important use of white oak is for planking and bent parts of ships and boats, heartwood often being specified because of its decay resistance. Description: The heartwood is generally grayish-brown, and […]
Tupelo (American White Wood) Other Names: Water Tupelo Uses: Tupelo is cut principally as lumber for shipping containers, furniture, Cigar or tobacco boxes, pallets, crates, baskets, and floors and platforms that are subject to heavy wear. . It is also used in railway ties and as pulp. Availability: 4%of the total supply of all kinds […]
Sap Gum (American Southern Cherry) Other Names: Red Gum, Sweetgum Uses: Sweetgum is used mainly for lumber, plywood, and railroad crossties. The lumber goes principally into boxes and crates, furniture, interior trim, and millwork. Description: The lumber from sweetgum is usually divided into two classes – sap gum, the light-colored wood from the sapwood, and […]
Hackberry Uses: Most hackberry is cut into lumber, with small amounts going into dimension stock and some into veneer. Most of it is used for furniture and some for containers. Description: The sapwood of both species varies from pale yellow to greenish or grayish-yellow. The heartwood is commonly darker. The wood resembles elm in structure. […]
Cottonwood Uses: Some cottonwood is difficult to work with tools because of fuzzy surfaces. Tension wood is largely responsible for this characteristic. Cottonwood lumber and veneer go largely into boxes, crates, baskets, and plates. Description: The heartwood of cottonwood is grayish-white to light brown. The sapwood is whitish and merges gradually into the heartwood. Range: […]