Colour light tan to biscuit with silver grey figure on quarter-sawn.  Usually straight grained but varies with growing conditions.  This is an increasingly popular timber with interior designers and shopfitters.  Moderately durable.  More ......

Strongly resembles plain sawn oak, having a yellowish brown sapwood and darker brown heartwood, but no obvious medullary rays.  It is straight grained and fairly coarse in texture.  It is easy to work and gives an excellent finish.  More .......

Heartwood is dull to reddish brown with a yellowish white clearly defined sapwood.  Coarse textured with a wild to straight grain, given careful drying and machining an excellent finish  can be obtained.  More ......

The sapwood is creamy white and is sharply defined from the golden, warm-brown of the heartwood.  Radial sawn material shows the characteristic silver grain figure.  The timber is hard, heavy and durable.  Coarse in texture and straight grained, requiring careful seasoning, it can be worked to a fine finish.  Indigenous to the British Isles, it is probably the best known and one of the most useful of all timbers, being used more extensively and for a greater number of purposes than any other.  More ......

Colour whitish or pale brown, if steamed then a reddish brown hue.  Works fairly readily and gives a good finish.  It can move in response to atmospheric changes so, together with its low resistance to decay, renders it unsuitable for exterior joinery.  If steamed then colour changes to pink or light red. More . .....