Tasmanian Timber Species

Tasmania, with its unique geography and environment, has some of the finest cool temperate hardwood forests in the world and an expanding hardwood and softwood plantation estate.

Using only the soil, sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide from the air, these forests produce some of the strongest and most beautiful timbers in the world. Renowned for almost 200 years, each species has its own character and individual richness.

Tasmanian Oak

Tasmanian Oak is the preferred hardwood for a wide range of applications; scantlings, panelling, flooring, glulam spans, veneers, plywood, furniture. Fibre for reconstituted board and the production of high-quality paper.

Blackwood

Blackwood is the perfect timber for fine furniture, joinery or a feature floor, radiating a subtle beauty that makes it irresistible to designers. High-quality veneers are used in joinery, cabinet-making and feature panelling.

Celery Top Pine

A durable and tough timber that provides a hard-wearing surface for flooring and an attractive fine-grained appearance with feature knots and figure for a beautifully unique character in furniture.

Myrtle

A striking timber that makes an excellent veneer and finishing timber. Used in high-quality furniture, joinery, cabinet-making and feature panelling in homes and offices, or as a finishing timber for cornices, architraves and skirting.

Sassafras

Available in two major groupings – Golden and Blackheart – makes an attractive veneer or laminated board, as a solid with knots and figure for furniture, panelling and moulding. Blackheart is prized for decorative work and turning.

Huon Pine

Huon Pine is the prince of Tasmanian timbers. The richness of its golden colour and figure make it one of the world’s most desirable furniture and veneering timbers.

Radiata Pine

Radiata Pine is a versatile timber widely used for structural and decorative applications including framing, lining, glue-laminated beams, plywood, and exposed structural and nonstructural applications if treated.