Table 3-1.-Common Woods - Continued
| TYPES | SOURCES | USES | CHARACTERISTICS |
| PHILIPPINE MAHOGANY | Philippine Islands | Pleasure boats, medium-grade furniture, interior trim | Not a true mahogany, shrinks, expands, splits, warps, but available in long, wide, clear boards |
| POPLAR | Virginias, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi Valley | Low-grade furniture, cheaply constructed buildings, interior boards, finish, shelving drawers, boxes | Soft, cheap, obtainable in wide warps, shrinks, rots easily, light, brittle, weak, but works easily and holds nails well, fine-textured |
| RED CEDAR | East of Colorado and north of Florida | Mothproof chests, lining for linen closets, sills, and other uses similar to white cedar | Very light; soft, weak, brittle, low shrinkage, great durability, fragrant scent, generally knotty, beautiful when finished in natural color, easily worked |
| RED OAK | Virginias, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Ohio, Missouri, Maryland | Interior finish, furniture, cabinets, millwork, crossties when preserved | Tends to warp, coarse grain, does not last well when exposed to weather, porous, easily impregnated with preservative, heavy, tough, strong |
| REDWOOD | California | General construction, tanks, paneling | Inferior to yellow pine and fir in strength, shrinks and splits little, extremely soft, light, straight grained, very durable, exceptional y resistant to decay |
| SPRUCE | New York, New England, West Virginia, central Canada, Great Lakes states, Idaho, Washington, Oregon | Railway ties, resonance wood, piles, airplanes, oars, masts, spars, baskets | Light, soft, low strength, fair durability, close grain, yellowish, sap wood indistinct |
| SUGAR PINE | California and Oregon | Same as white pine | Very light, soft, resembles white pine |
| TEAK | India, Burma, Thailand, and Java | Deck planking, shaft logs for small boats | Light brown color, strong, easily worked, durable, resistant to moisture damage |