Exotic hardwoods - countries of origin?

[Charlie Harley]

I'm working on a project with an international theme and want to use woods from each continent. (Oak will represent Anarctica because the Endurance was made of oak when Shackleton sailed her on the famous expedition.)

Does anyone have a list of where the various hardwoods come from, especially the exotics that can be acquired fairly easily like canarywood and bloodwood?

All help and suggestions are much appreciated.

 

[Ed_McDonnell]

Not a list, but a website where you can get the information for many tropical hardwoods.

http://www2.fpl.fs.fed.us/TechSheets/techmenu.html

There is no guarantee that any particular piece of wood you acquire will have been sourced from it's "native" locale, but you probably aren't going to be that picky.

Ed

 

[Michael Kuehl]

exotic woods

Another site is http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics. The woods aren't organized by country, but the list of woods is exhaustive.

 

[gran]

here is another listing as well
http://www.woodworkerssource.net/Merchant3/merchant.mv