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2. Hymenaea courbaril - Wikipedia

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   Hymenaea courbaril, the courbaril or West Indian locust, [3] is a hardwood tree common in the Caribbean and Central and South America. As lumber it is frequently used to make furniture, flooring, and decoration. Its hard fruit pods have an edible dry pulp surrounding the seeds.

3. Bamboo floor - Wikipedia

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   Other flooring materials have comparable Janka ratings, with a higher number indicating a harder material: red oak (1290); white oak (1360); rock maple (1450); hickory (1820); and Brazilian Cherry / Jatoba (2350).

4. Janka hardness test - Wikipedia

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   For hardwood flooring, the test usually requires an 80 mm × 150 mm (3 in × 6 in) sample with a thickness of at least 6–8 mm, and the most commonly used test is the ASTM D1037. When testing wood in lumber form, the Janka test is always carried out on wood from the tree trunk (known as the heartwood), and the standard sample (according to ...

5. Wood flooring - Wikipedia

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   Solid hardwood floors were originally used for structural purposes, being installed perpendicular to the wooden support beams of a building known as joists or bearers. With the increased use of concrete as a subfloor in some parts of the world, engineered wood flooring has gained some popularity.

6. List of woods - Wikipedia

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   Spanish Cedar, cedro, Brazilian mahogany (Cedrela odorata) Light bosse, pink mahogany (Guarea cedrata) Dark bosse, pink Mahogany (Guarea thompsonii) American muskwood (Guarea grandifolia) Carapa, royal mahogany, demerara mahogany, bastard mahogany, andiroba, crabwood (Carapa guianensis) [8] Bead-tree, white cedar, Persian lilac (Melia azedarach)

7. Brazilian cherry - Wikipedia

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   Brazilian cherry is a common name for several plants native to the New World tropics with edible fruits: Eugenia brasiliensis, endemic to southern Brazil; Eugenia uniflora; Hymenaea courbaril, in the legume family, the term referring to the hard red wood of the tree