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Purple Heart wood gets its name from its color-changing properties. It starts as brown but changes to purple when exposed to UV light. It is exceptionally challenging to work with and highly resistant to decay.

Known as the national tree of the Bahamas, Lignum Vitae is highly dense and laborious to work with. It is prized for its self-lubricating properties, making it an excellent choice for bearings. It is also endangered.

Dalbergia wood is known for its durability, density, and rarity. It is commonly used in sports goods and high-quality furniture. Working with Dalbergia wood can be hazardous due to its poisonous sawdust.

Once widely used in the production of musical instruments, Brazilian Rosewood has become extremely rare due to overexploitation. Its rich reddish-brown color and excellent tonal properties make it highly sought after.

Ziricote is a rare wood from Central America known for its striking dark brown color with black streaks. It is highly valued for its unique appearance and is often used in luxury furniture and decorative items.

Unlike most of the other trees on this list, sandalwood is not prized for its durability or hardness. It rates only a 1,690 pound-force on the Janka hardness scale. Sandalwood trees grow to about 33 feet tall. This is a partially parasitic tree that grows on the roots of other species of trees. You can find sandalwood trees on islands of the South Pacific and in Southeast Asia. Some farmers are now commercially growing sandalwood in Australia as well, which may help relieve some of the shortages and lower its price.

Cricket balls are still made from lignum vitae, when available, as are some tool handles, bearings, and mallet heads. However, its endangered status has forced many manufacturers to seek alternative options.

As the name suggests, purpleheart (Peltogyne purpurea) can have a greyish-purple or deep purple hue. It typically looks more gray or brown when first cut, but the color deepens and becomes more purple with exposure to UV light. Purpleheart is also known as Amaranth. This wood grows in Central and South America. These trees are most commonly found in the rainforests of Guyana, Brazil, and Suriname.

Bocote wood comes from a flowering plant that grows in Central America, South America, the West Indies, and Mexico. When first cut, this wood has a yellowish-brown hue, but this darkens with time. You can find Bocote with a variety of grains from neat straight lines to wild swirls.

Brazilian Rosewood (Dalbergia nigra) ranges from purple and red to dark brown in color. It may have unique streaks of yellow or other lighter hues. The grain features a distinctive spider webbing that adds to its beauty. This wood is durable and resistant to both insects and rot.

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Many argue that African Blackwood is the most expensive wood in the world. This is also known as Mozambique ebony or Congo Wood. Native to the seasonally dry regions of Africa. But there are others that often compare to the extremely high price of African Blackwood and we have listed some here;

To make this assessment we have simply rated each timber in terms of price to buy in its raw, sawn form. We used m3 price for 50mm boards in each case. The figures used were provided by a number of suppliers where we could readily source the species. Please note that these figures will fluctuate overtime and our comparison table was produced using figures from December 2014.

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NB: The prices for each wood fluctuates given the current market, and the prices reflected here were accurate as of the date of publishing. Where possible, prices and measurements were all converted to the same units to give as accurate a side-by-side comparison as we could.

This African hardwood goes under many names, including Red Ivory, Purple Ivory and UmNini. It is grown in Africa, and has an incredibly high wood density of 990g/dm3 and a Janka hardness rating of 3,230 ibf (14,370 N), making it a very strong, durable material. It is often used for veneers, inlays, chessmen and knife handles, to name a few uses. The wood is pink in colour, ranging from a pale brownish pink to a deep red, with the vibrant pink variety being considered the most valuable. Pink Ivory is very difficult to work with in boards, with tearout often occurring when the board is planed, so this wood is more commonly used for carving.

Grown in Santalum, Sandalwood is most well known for its fragrant essential oils that are extracted from the wood and used for perfumes. It is primarily its oils that make it a valuable commodity, and due to overharvesting, the price has risen more and more for the wood. The wood is heavy, almost yellow in colour and very fine-grained.

Dalbergia is native to tropical regions such as Central and South America, Africa, South Asia and Madagascar. It is mostly used for high-class furniture, railway sleepers and sports goods. Similarly to Sandalwood, what makes Dalbergia so popular is the fragrant, aromatic oils that are present in the wood.

Mostly used for musical instruments, African Blackwood has a unique, attractive texture and a dark black hue in colour. It has a janka hardness rating of 3,670 ibf (16,320 N) that makes it very durable, although hard to work with, often blunting sharp tools. Unfortunately, due to loose rules around harvesting in Africa, the native range of this wood is under threat of extinction.

Another attractive wood from the African regions, Bubinga comes in many various grain patterns, and the rarer the pattern, the more valuable the wood. Often used for harps, other high end musical instruments and luxurious furniture, this wood ranges in colour from a light pinkish red to darker red, dark purple to black, making it a versatile wood suitable for many aesthetic purposes. The janka rating is 2,410 ibf (10,720 N), which means it can have a significant dulling effect on woodcutting tools, but it is still a popular option for strong and sturdy furniture and inlays.

Ebony is incredibly dense, even sinking in water where most woods would float, and has a janka hardness of 3,080 ibf (13,7000 N). It has a fine texture and smooth, dark finish that make it a valuable ornamental wood for use in things like musical instruments and crucifixes. Because of its high demand and high price, Ebony is normally reserved for use in very small amounts, and is currently under threat of extinction due to illegal harvesting.

This ancient wood dates back as far as biblical times, and is even mentioned in the Old Testament of the Bible. It is a dark, resinous heartwood that only forms in Aquilaria and Gyrinops trees that are native to southeast Asia when they have a mould infection. The infection causes the wood to turn dense and dark while also having a fragrant oil that is in as high demand as the timber. First-grade agarwood is hugely expensive, although low quality varieties are available at cheaper prices. Agarwood is at huge risk of extinction, and wood of this variety is incredibly hard to purchase, normally only available in small chips rather than workable boards.

Lignum Vitae is native to the Caribbean and north of South America. Lignum Vitae is incredibly dense and strong with a Janka hardness of a staggering 4,390 ibf (19,510 N). Because this tree is so slow growing, with a rate of just 2 inches per year, wood yield is low and very in demand. Colour varies from olive to a dark, almost black, brown with a green tint. This wood is often sold by the pound rather than by board feet because it is extremely difficult to work with and blunts blades, making it more difficult to cut into uniform shape. Because the wood is very heavy, this makes for a very expensive purchase. One of the more popular uses for this wood is to form cricket bats to be used in windy locations.

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