Advanced Wood Discovery

Criteria Search

Find wood species by the characteristics that matter to your project — performance, density, hardness, shrinkage, durability, workability, appearance, use, family and geographic distribution.

Connected to the current species database Searches use the property architecture managed by Species Property Manager. Historical values remain labeled and are not silently averaged or overwritten.

1,559species records in the current connected dataset

1,551species with connected property data

9numerical criteria available in this first connected release

Build your criteria

Use one criterion or combine several. Results appear only after you choose what matters.

Species & classification

Name or taxonomy

Botanical family

Geography & intended use

Region / country contains

Common use contains

Working, durability & appearance

Natural durability

Workability contains

Heartwood / appearance contains

Numerical performance

Numerical property

Minimum

Maximum

Choose a numerical property. Units are shown in the property list.

Clear

Matching species

Choose one or more criteria to begin.

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What kind of wood are you looking for?

For example: furniture woods from Africa, a dense wood, a hard turning wood, or a species with low radial shrinkage.

Criteria methodology: the search preserves multiple reported historical values rather than averaging them. A species matches a numerical range when at least one supported reported value falls inside the requested range. Values in known conflict-note fields are not used automatically. Historical bending/crushing observations that still require normalization are deliberately excluded from automatic numerical matching until reviewed.