TIMBER SPECIES & TYPES
Creative Timbers are the specialists to contact for all your timber needs whether it be hardwood or softwood. The species listed are only some of the many kinds we have in stock, please contact us if you need a different timber or if you need more information about the species you want. If necessary we can access supplies of rare timber species.
As a matter of interest, the term 'softwood' and 'hardwood' are purely botanical terms and have nothing to do with the hardness or softness of the timber.
Timber Softwoods
- Clear Hoop Pine - Araucaria cunninhhamii
- Cypress - Callitris glauca
- Finger Jointed Pine
- Radiata - Pinus radiata
Timber Hardwoods
- American White Oak - Quercus alba
- Balsa - Ochroma pyramidale
- Blackbutt - Eucalyptus pilularis
- Bolly Silkwood/Tarzali Silkwood - Cryptocarya oblata
- Durian - Durio, Neesia, Coelostegia Spp
- Geronggang - Cratoxylon arborescens
- Jarrah - Eucalyptus marginata
- Jelutong - Dyera costulata
- Kwila/Merbau - Intsia bijuga
- Melunak - Pentace spp.
- Meranti - Shorea sp.
- New Guinea Rosewood - Pterocarpus indicus
- Queensland Maple - Flindersia brayleyana
- Red Cedar - Toona australis
- Sassafras - Doryphora sassafras
- Silky Oak - Cardwellia sublimis
- Spotted Gum - Corymbia maculata
- Surian Cedar / Kalantas - Cedrela calantas
- Sydney Blue Gum - Eucalyptus saligna
- Tallowwood - Eucalyptus microcorys
- Tasmanian Blackwood - Acacia melanoxylon
- Tasmanian Oak / Victorian Ash - Eucalyptus obliqua / Eucalyptus regnans, Eucalyptus delegatensis
- Western Red Cedar - Thuja plicata
