USDAFS Forest Products Lab
Click on a thumbnail to see the full size wood grain image or go to the Forest Products Lab to read its mechanical properties.
For a listing of wood properities for most major timber trees visit Hardwoods of North America or Softwoods of North America (pdf documents).
There are 61 trees with wood grain images, please be patient as the thumbnails load.
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Abies balsamea - balsam fir USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Abies concolor - white fir USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Acer nigrum - black maple USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Acer rubrum - red maple USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Acer saccharinum - silver maple USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Acer saccharum - sugar maple USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Alnus rubra - red alder USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Betula alleghaniensis - yellow birch USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Betula lenta - sweet birch USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Betula papyrifera - paper birch USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Calocedrus decurrens - incense-cedar USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Carya aquatica - water hickory USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Carya cordiformis - bitternut hickory USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Carya glabra - pignut hickory USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Carya illinoinensis - pecan USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Carya laciniosa - shellbark hickory USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Carya ovalis - red hickory USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Carya ovata - shagbark hickory USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Carya pallida - sand hickory USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Carya tomentosa - mockernut hickory USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Castanea dentata - American chestnut USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Celtis laevigata var. laevigata - sugarberry USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Celtis laevigata var. reticulata - netleaf hackberry USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Celtis occidentalis - hackberry USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Chamaecyparis lawsoniana - Port-Orford-cedar USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Chamaecyparis thyoides - Atlantic white-cedar USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Cornus florida - flowering dogwood USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Eucalyptus camaldulensis - river red gum |
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Eucalyptus globulus - blue gum |
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Fagus grandifolia - American beech USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Fraxinus americana - white ash USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Fraxinus nigra - black ash USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Fraxinus pennsylvanica - green ash USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Juglans cinerea - butternut USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Juglans nigra - black walnut USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Juniperus virginiana - eastern redcedar USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Larix occidentalis - western larch USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Liquidambar styraciflua - sweetgum USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Liriodendron tulipifera - yellow-poplar USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Maclura pomifera - Osage-orange USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Magnolia acuminata - cucumbertree USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Magnolia fraseri - Fraser magnolia |
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Magnolia grandiflora - southern magnolia USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Nyssa sylvatica - blackgum USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Picea engelmannii - Engelmann spruce USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Picea glauca - white spruce USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Picea mariana - black spruce USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Picea rubens - red spruce USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Picea sitchensis - Sitka spruce USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Pinus clausa - sand pine USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Pinus contorta - lodgepole pine USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Pinus echinata - shortleaf pine USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Pinus elliottii - slash pine USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Pinus glabra - spruce pine USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Pinus lambertiana - sugar pine USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Pinus monticola - western white pine USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Pinus palustris - longleaf pine USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Pinus ponderosa - ponderosa pine USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Pinus pungens - Table Mountain pine USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Pinus rigida - pitch pine USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Pinus serotina - pond pine |
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Pinus strobus - eastern white pine USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Pinus taeda - loblolly pine USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Pinus virginiana - Virginia pine USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Platanus occidentalis - American sycamore USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Populus angustifolia - narrowleaf cottonwood USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Populus balsamifera ssp. balsamifera - balsam poplar USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa - black cottonwood USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Populus deltoides - eastern cottonwood USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Populus fremontii - Fremont cottonwood USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Populus grandidentata - bigtooth aspen USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Populus heterophylla - swamp cottonwood USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Populus tremuloides - quaking aspen USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Prunus serotina - black cherry USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Pseudotsuga menziesii - Douglas-fir USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Quercus alba - white oak USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Quercus falcata - southern red oak USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Quercus rubra - northern red oak USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Quercus velutina - black oak USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Robinia pseudoacacia - black locust USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Salix nigra - black willow USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Sassafras albidum - sassafras USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Sequoia sempervirens - redwood USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Swietenia mahagoni - West Indies mahogany |
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Taxodium distichum - baldcypress USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Thuja plicata - western redcedar USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Tilia americana - American basswood USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Tsuga canadensis - eastern hemlock USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Tsuga heterophylla - western hemlock USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Ulmus alata - winged elm USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Ulmus americana - American elm USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Ulmus rubra - slippery elm USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
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Ulmus thomasii - rock elm USDAFS Forest Products Lab |
Woodblocks courtesy of Mrs. Allen Crenshaw and special thanks to Dr. Audrey Zink-Sharp, Department of Sustainable Biomaterials at Virginia Tech.