timber
Every article and hero in Arborpedia that touches this subject.
№ 020TreesAsh: The Tree We Are Losing
Light canopy, superb timber, and the fastest-moving tree disease in Europe — plus why the survivors matter more than anything else in the woodland.
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№ 027TreesBamboo: The Grass That Builds Buildings
The fastest-growing plant on earth, the difference between running and clumping species, and why it flowers once a century and then dies.
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№ 099TreesConifers: The Evergreen Backbone
The genera worth knowing, what conifer litter does to soil, and the difference between a conifer plantation and a conifer forest.
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№ 133TreesDouglas Fir: Not a Fir, and the Best Softwood There Is
Three-pointed bracts on the cones, deep roots that resist windthrow, and the timber that built the Pacific Northwest.
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№ 502TreesTulip Tree: The Tallest Hardwood in the East
Liriodendron — a magnolia relative with square-cut leaves, orange-marked flowers, and the straightest timber in North America.
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№ 511TreesWalnut: High-Value Timber and Food
Walnut pairs premium timber with calorie-dense nuts. Design around juglone allelopathy and you get one of the most profitable trees in temperate agroforestry.
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№ 521TreesWild Cherry: Timber, Blossom, and Suckers
Gean and bird cherry — high-value hardwood, a spectacular spring flowering, and a root system that colonises.
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