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INDONESIAN EXOTIC WOOD

Most of the natural forests in Indonesia, including in tropical rain forests. Tropical rainforests have characteristics that are different from other forests. Indonesia is an archipelago that has over 17,500 islands spread from Sabang to Merauke.​Diverse place to grow from forests in Indonesia make Indonesia's tropical forests have a special characteristic of the forest than in the other hemisphere.Many experts discription tropical rainforests as a specific ecosystem, which can only stand firmly with the links between the constituent components as a unified whole.​​

 

The linkage between the constituent components allows certain forms of forest structure that can provide a specific function as well as high biological productivity, hydrological cycles are adequate and others. as well as the establishment of this exotic wood stems.​

BANGKIRAI

Hardness:  1798

TEAK/ JATI

Janka Hardness: 1155​

​Teak is the common name for the tropical hardwood tree species Tectona grandis and its wood products. Tectona grandis is native to south and southeast Asia, mainly India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Burma, but is naturalized and cultivated in many countries, including those in Africa and the Caribbean.

SUNGKAI

Janka Hardness: 

Similar to Mahogany wood

RED MAHOGANY

Janka Hardness:  2697

Eucalyptus resinifera, known as the Red Mahogany, is a common eucalyptus tree of eastern Australia. Its range of distribution is from Jervis Bay north to about Gladstone, Queensland in dry sclerophyll or wet sclerophyll forest habitats, preferring soils of a medium to high fertility.

MERBAU

Janka Hardness: 1712
Merbau is one of the most hard and durable wood options. It is just under one third harder than red oak, is roughly eighteen percent harder than hard maple,  and approaches seventy-eight percent of santos mahogany's ranking of 2200.

TIGER RENGAS BORNEO​

(properly known as either Gluta spp. and Melanorrhoea spp, so not a true rosewood of the Dalbergiagenus) due to the stripes in the heartwood and/or for its location of origin, is a wood that originates in the Indo-Malaysian region of Southeast Asia. Janka Hardness of Janka Hardness of Tiger Borneo Rosewood: 1210

IRON WOOD / ULIN BORNEO

Ironwood is a large tropical hardwood tree that grows abundantly throughout Indonesia . Iron wood is prized for its durability, strength, and its natural resistance to decay, wet conditions, and insect infestation. Janka Hardness of Borneo Ironwood: 3010 pounds​

MACASSAR EBONY

Southeast Asia (named for the port city Makassar on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi) Janka Hardness: 3,178 lbf (14,140 N. Has a dramatic striped appearance, somewhat similar toZebrawood. Light to reddish brown body with darker brown or black stripes. Has a very fine texture and small pores. The grain is usually straight, but can sometimes be interlocked.

JAVA ROSEWOOD

Asian Rosewood/ Java Rosewood is a large tropical hardwood tree that grows abundantly throughout Indonesia . Java Rosewood one of Exotic Hard Wood in Rainforest. Janka Hardness of Java Rosewood : 2450 pounds 

 

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