hardwood
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№ 128TreesHop-Hornbeam: Iron Wood and Papery Hops
A small, tough understorey tree with wood dense enough to sink and fruit clusters that look like hops — one of many trees called ironwood.
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№ 163TreesMahogany: The Furniture Wood a Single Moth Keeps Wild
The rich red timber that defined fine furniture — logged toward scarcity, listed on CITES, and impossible to grow in plantations because a small caterpillar destroys every seedling.
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№ 305TreesTeak: The Weatherproof Timber That Built the World's Ships
The premier tropical hardwood — self-oiling, rot-proof, dimensionally stable — that panelled navies and decked yachts, and the plantation crop that now supplies it.
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