Ghana Hardwoods

Trade
Name

Botanical
Name

Weight
kg/m3 (1215% m/c)
General Desription Common Uses

Parinari
excelsa

Hard, heavy and strong

900 for tough exterior use

Albizia

Albizia zygia

General purpose red

550 utility species

Asanfina

Aningeria
spp.

Lower strength,
550 decorative interior use

Thurenthus
africanus

Attractive, pale, silky

wood for interior
decorative panelling and
550 furniture

Guibourtia
ehie

High quality cabiniet

wood prized for
850 apparence

Afam

Avodire

Black
Hyedua

FOUND IN VOLTA LAKE

Heavy duty structures,

industrial floors,
sleepers, mining
timbers, boat
construction
Joinery, veneer,
plywood, selected
furniture, carpentry,
flooring, boat
construction
Sliced veneer, interior
joinery, panelling and
trip.
High quality interior
joinery, fittings,
mouldings, furniture,
decorative veneer and
plywood
Decorative sliced veneer,
high quality cabinet
work, special joinery,
trim and fittings,
flooring, carvings,
turnery.

Triton Logging Inc. 6675 Mirah Road, Saanichton, BC, Canada V8M 1Z4
Phone: 250-652-4033
| Fax: 250-483-1955 | www.tritonlogging.com

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Ceiba

Ceiba
pentandra

300

Dahoma

Piptadeniastr
um
aftricanum

700

Danta

Nesogordonia
papaverifera

750

Denya
Ebony

Edinam

Cylicodiscus
gabunensis
Diospyros
crassiflora

Entandrophra
gma
angolense

950
1030

FOUND IN VOLTA LAKE

Core veneers for

plywood and blockboard,
Creamy white heartwood mouldings, food
and sapwood.
containters, boxes
Exterior structural,
Tough timber used
mining timbers, marine
mostly for exterior
work, sleepers, outdoor
applications
furniture, trailer decking
High quality joinery,
Heavy attractive
cabinet work, bench
redwood. Fine Grained,
tops, boat components,
hard wearing, strong.
decking, turnery.
Heavy construction,
marine construction,
dock work, bridges,
Very high strength and
pilings, ship and boat
durability for arduous
building, heavy duty
applications
flooring
Fine instruments, crafts,
Dark brown/black, hard furniture accents

Widely used attractive

550 redwood species

Outdoor and indoor high

quality joinery, cabinet
making, furniture, floors,
sliced/rotary veneer,
boat-building, turnery

Triton Logging Inc. 6675 Mirah Road, Saanichton, BC, Canada V8M 1Z4
Phone: 250-652-4033
| Fax: 250-483-1955 | www.tritonlogging.com

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Emeri

Celtis

Guarea

Kaku/Ekki
Kane

Konkroma

FOUND IN VOLTA LAKE

Joinery, trim, mouldings,

light structures, window
Light coloured versatile
frames, furniture,
Terminalia
species of good strength domestic flooring,
ivorensis
550 at 12-15% and durability
veneer, plywood
Structural interior
joinery, trim, flooring,
Strong light coloured
mouldings, veneer,
Celtis
with straight grain and
plywood, handles,
mildbraedii
750 fine texture.
furniture.
Cabinet work, furniture,
Strong timber of
flooring, boat
Guarea
Mahogany-like
construction, joinery,
cedrata
600 appearance
turnery, veneer.
Sea defence, heavy
One of Ghana's toughest structural work, floors,
Lophira alata
1050 and most durable species piling.
Anogeissus
Strong, durable timber,
Framing, hand tools,
leiocarpus
1041 resistent to decay.
construction.
Hard wood,
attractive,open grained, Gunstocks, instruments
Morinda
well suited for custom
and other fine
lucida Benth.
500 applications
woodworking.

Pterygota
Koto/Kyere macrocarpa

Light coloured veneer

650 and interior speciec

Sliced and rotary veneer,

plywood, select joinery,
carpentry, boxes.

Triton Logging Inc. 6675 Mirah Road, Saanichton, BC, Canada V8M 1Z4
Phone: 250-652-4033
| Fax: 250-483-1955 | www.tritonlogging.com

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Kusia

Mahogany

Makore

Nauclea
diderrichii

Widely used, highly

durable exterior quality
750 timber

Khaya
ivornsis

Attractive, versatile
redwood of worldwide
500 reputation

Tieghmella
heckelii

Sterculia
Obaa/Ohaa Oblonga

Odum

Milicia exels

FOUND IN VOLTA LAKE

Marine construction,
dock work, decking,
exterior structures,
flooring, boat work.
High quality joinery,
cabinet work, furniture,
mouldings, doors,
frames, boat
construction, veneer,
plywood, turnery,
carvings

Interior and exterior

decorative and structural
Valued commercial
joinery, furniture,
redwood of good
staircases, boats, high
640 durability and strength
quality veneers
Rotary veneer, sliced
Pale yellowish wood of
veneer, plywood,
attractive appearance for blockboard, joinery, trip,
750 interior use
panneling.
Exterior and interior
joinery, cabinet work,
Well known, high grade, garden furniture,
commercial species;
flooring, work tops,
good strength and
window frames, vats,
650 durability
boat work, decking
Triton Logging Inc. 6675 Mirah Road, Saanichton, BC, Canada V8M 1Z4
Phone: 250-652-4033
| Fax: 250-483-1955 | www.tritonlogging.com

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Ofram

Terminalia
superb

General purpose light

coloured interior and
550 veneer species

Otie

Pycnanthus
angolensis

500

Papao

Azelia
africana

825

Potrodum

Erythrophleu
m africanum

900

Tetekon

Gilbertiodend
ron spp.

800

FOUND IN VOLTA LAKE

Rotary veneer, plywood,

blockboard, interior
joinery, panelling,
moulding and trim,
selected furniture

Interior utility joinery,

trim, mouldings,
General purpose interior selected furniture, rotary
species
veneer, plywood, boxes
High quality exterior and
interior joinery, heavy
construction, flooring,
Very stable, strong,
decking, selected
durable, and attractive
furniture, boat work,
commercial species
doors
Heavy construction,
marine construction,
dock work, bridges,
pilings, ship and boat
Extremely strong and
building, heavy duty
durable outdoor species flooring
Joinery, Carpentry, Boat
Construction, Decking,
Medium strength species Flooring, General
of varied application.
Construction.

Triton Logging Inc. 6675 Mirah Road, Saanichton, BC, Canada V8M 1Z4
Phone: 250-652-4033
| Fax: 250-483-1955 | www.tritonlogging.com

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Walnut

Lovoa
trichilioides

520

Watapuo

Sterculia spp.

750

Wawa

Triplochiton
scleroxylon

375

Sterculia
Wawabima rhinopetala

750

FOUND IN VOLTA LAKE

High quality furniture,

cabinet work, joinery,
domestic flooring, boat
construction, doors and
High quality, decorative frames, sliced/rotary
wood of distinctive colour veneer, plywood
Boxes, crates, carvings,
Fairly soft; medium
light construction,
density
furniture, cabinetry
Rotary veneer, plywood,
blockboard, interior
Light coloured versitile
joinery, panelling,
interior species, widely
moulding, Sauna
used
selected furniture.
Joinery, fititngs, flooring,
selected exterior
Dark red, close-grained
structures rotarty
species of good strength veneer, plywood.

Triton Logging Inc. 6675 Mirah Road, Saanichton, BC, Canada V8M 1Z4
Phone: 250-652-4033
| Fax: 250-483-1955 | www.tritonlogging.com