Ivory coast, Ghana, Southern Nigeria and Gabon.

Primarily sliced veneer, occasionally rotary cut for face veneer, used for furniture, luxury architectural woodwork, today used especially for dashboard paneling in the automobile industry. It is almost always quarter sliced.

West Africa from Liberia East Nigeria through Gabon to Zaire, drier regions in the lower tropical rain forests. Trees up to 45 m tall with conspicuously high roots.

Higher quality architectural woodwork and mass-produced furniture, paneling and parquet flooring. Well-suited also for musical instruments.

Exterior joinery (window frames, doors,) flooring, Heavy construction including harbour and dock work, furniture, because of good acid resistance used for vats and tanks.

Sliced veneer for faces and as rotary veneer for plywood production, furniture, panelling, and parquet flooring. Hardly known in furniture production in Central Europe. Popular decoration wood in Southern Europe (Spain, Italy)

West Africa from Cameroon through Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Congo, lower tropical rain forest.

Limba is a favourite wood for the production of plywood, sliced and peeled veneer. Also used in furniture production, for painted doors and moldings.

Sliced veneer mostly used as backing and inside veneer in Central Europe. Used also in Southern Europe and North America as face veneer. Solid wood for parquet floors and stairs. Figured Makoré is used for high quality architectural woodwork or musical instruments.

High quality architectural woodwork. Popular wood for this purpose in the USA, Australia and Japan.

Sliced veneer for faces, furniture, panelling, parquet flooring, doors, pianos and construction lumber.

Sliced veneer for faces, furniture, panelling, parquet flooring, doors, pianos and construction lumber.

Sliced veneer for faces and rotary veneer for panels, furniture, interior fittings, panelling and parquet flooring, construction lumber.

For veneer. In Central Europe generally used as interior veneer. Used as a substitute for Cherry when applied as face veneer. Frequently used in Southern Europe as face veneer for mass-produced furniture. Used also in North America for high quality architectural purposes, but generally in figured form. Special wood for printing and dyeing. In Italy, Spain and Greece used as a substitute for Walnut Sapwood. Also used for the production of fineline veneers.

Sliced veneer, construction lumber, shape-retaining frame-work for precision instruments, etc., architectural woodwork and inlay. It is most solely quarter cut and sliced.

Sliced veneer used for door skins and inner surface veneers; rotary veneer used for plywood panels. Used in the furniture industry more as a backing veneer.

For high quality architectural purposes, especially in the USA, Australia and Southeast Asia. Also used for musical instruments. Still used on a small scale in Europe.

As veneer for inferior purposes. Not used in Central Europe as face veneer. Serves as substitute for Teak in furniture making and used in the USA for interior boat fixtures and fittings.

Valuable veneer wood, specially used as slicing wood for face veneer with close veins. Architectural wood for furniture, panelling and parquet flooring lumber. Generally cut halfround on the staylog.