Different Types of Hardwood Flooring Species:

• Acacia
• Afzelia (Afzelia)
• Agba yun (Synsepalum duloificum)
• Albizia (Albizia)
• Alder (Alnus)
• Applewood or wild apple (Malus)
• Arbutus (Arbutus)
• Ash (Fraxinus)
• Aspen (Populus)
• Australian Red Cedar (Toona ciliata)
• Ayan (Distemonanthus benthamianus)
• Balsa (Ochroma pyramidale)
• Basswood
• Beech (Fagus)
• Birch (Betula)
• Blackbean (Castanospermum australe)
• Blackwood
• Bocote (Cordia alliodora)
• Boxelder (Acer negundo)
• Boxwood or Box (Buxus sempervirens)
• Brazilwood (Caesalpinia echinata)
• Bubinga (Guibourtia)
• Buckeye (Aesculus)
• Common Horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)
• Butternut (Juglans cinerea)
• Carapa (or Andiroba, Carap, Crappo, Crabwood and Santa Maria) (Carapa guianensis) .
• Catalpa (Catalpa)
• Cherry (Prunus)
• Chestnut (Castanea dentata)
• Coachwood (Ceratopetalum apetalum)
• Cocobolo (Dalbergia retusa)
• Corkwood (Leitneria floridana)
• Balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera)
• Cucumbertree (Magnolia acuminata)
• Dogwood (Cornus spp.)
• Ebony (Diospyros)
• Andaman marble-wood (India) (Diospyros kurzii)
• Ebène marbre (Mauritius, E. Africa) (Diospyros melanida)
• Gabon ebony, Black ebony, African ebony (Diospyros crassiflora)
• Elm
• Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus)
• Lyptus
• Karri (W. Australia) (Eucalyptus diversicolor)
• Mahogany eucalyptus, (New South Wales) (Eucalyptus)
• Ironbark Eucalyptus sideroxylon
• Jarrah or West Australian eucalyptus (Eucalyptus marginata)
• Tasmanian oak or Mountain ash, (Eucalyptus regnans Eucalyptus obliqua Eucalyptus delegatensis)
• River Red Gum
• Blue Gum Eucalyptus saligna
• Greenheart (Guyana) (Chlorocardium rodiei)
• Grenadilla (Mpingo) (Dalbergia melanoxylon)
• Gum
• Hickory (Carya)
• Hornbeam (Carpinus species)
• Hophornbeam, Eastern (Ostrya virginiana)
• Ipê or Poui (Tabebuia)
• Iroko (Milicia excelsa syn Chlorophora excelsa)
• Ironwood refers to the wood of many tree species noted for the hardness of their wood. Trees commonly known as ironwoods include:
• Bangkirai, also known as Balau.
• Carpinus caroliniana - also known as American hornbeam
• Casuarina equisetifolia - Common Ironwood from Australia
• Choricbangarpia subargentea
• Copaifera spp.
• Eusideroxylon zwageri
• Guajacum officinale and Guajacum sanctum - Lignum vitae
• Hopea odorata
• Ipe also known as Brazilian Walnut.
• Krugiodendron ferreum - Black Ironwood
• Lyonothamnus lyonii (L. floribundus) - Catalina Ironwood
• Mesua ferrea - also known as Rose Chestnut or Ceylon Ironwood, from Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia
• Olea spp. - various olive trees
• Olneya tesota - Desert Ironwood
• Ostrya virginiana - Hop hornbeam
• Parrotia persica - Persian Ironwood
• Tabebuia serratifolia - Yellow Lapacho
• Jacarandá, Brazilian rosewood (Dalbergia nigra)
• Jatobá (Hymenaea courbaril)
• Lacewood from the Sycamore(N.Am.) or Plane(UK) trees (Platanus species)
• Laurel, California (Umbellularia californica)
• Limba (Terminalia superba)
• Lignum vitae (Guaiacum officinale and Guaiacum sanctum)
• Locust
• Black locust or Yellow locust (Robinia pseudacacia)
• Honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos)
• Mahogany
• Maple (Acer)
• Hard Maple (N.Am.)
• Sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
• Black maple (Acer nigrum)
• Soft Maple (N.Am.)
• Manitoba maple (Acer negundo)
• Red maple (Acer rubrum)
• Silver maple (Acer saccharinum)
• European Maples
• Oak (Quercus)
• American White Oak includes wood from any of the following species of trees:
• Brazilwood (Caesalpinia echinata)
• Poplar (Populus; in N.Am., wood sold as poplar is usually Yellow-poplar)
• Ramin
• Red cedar (Toona ciliata)
• Rosewood (Dalbergia spp.)
• Sal (Shorea robusta)
• Sandalwood (Santalum)
• Sassafras (Sassafras albidum)
• Sassafras (Australia) (Atherosperma moschatum)
• Satinwood (Ceylon) (Chloroxylon swietenia)
• Silky Oak (Grevillea robusta) - Sold as Lacewood in North America
• Silver Wattle Acacia dealbata
• Snakewood
• Sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum)
• Spanish-cedar (Cedrela odorata)
• American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)
• Teak (Tectona grandis)
• Walnut (Juglans)
• Black Walnut (Juglans nigra)
• Persian Walnut (Juglans regia)
• Brazilian walnut; Not a walnut see Ipe above.
• Willow (Salix)
• Black willow (Salix nigra)
• Cricket-bat willow (Salix alba 'Coerulea')
• White willow (Salix alba)
• Yellow-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)