Cocobolo - Central America.
Purpleheart - Central and South America
Padauk – Africa, Burma and the Andaman Islands (between India and Burma)
Rosewood - tropical America, Southeast Asia, and Madagascar.
Bocote - Central America
Zebrawood - Central Africa, Gabon, Cameroon, and Congo
Lacewood - Queensland in Australia and Brazil
Bubinga - Cameroon, Gabon and Zaire
Yellow Heart – Brazil
Canary Wood - Panama, Ecuador and Southern Brazil
Brazilian Cherry - Central and South America and the West Indies
Walnut - Massachusetts to Southern Ontario and Nebraska, throughout the eastern half
of the United States.
Maple - the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, the New England and Great
Lakes regions.
Walnut – 21 species range from southeast Europe east to Japan, and more widely from
southeast Canada west to California and south to Argentina.
Oak – native to the northern hemisphere
Cherry – native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere (America, Europe,
Asia)
Mahogany – protected in their native locations under the international agreement CITES,
however it is grown on plantations in India, Fiji, Bangladesh, and Indonesia.
Hormigo Negro – Central America
Bloodwood – Brazil
Spanish Cedar – the Pacific coast of Mexico, throughout Central America and the
Caribbean, to the lowlands and foothills of most of South America up to about 4,000 ft
altitude, finding its southern limit in northern Argentina.