Below is a list of the 12 most precious and expensive woods in the world. There are types of wood that never get rotten, can withstand water, emit a pleasant fragrance and are extremely impact resistant. The plants that create them grow slowly, are picky about soil, and are in danger of extinction.
Purple Heart
Purple Heart wood is also known as purple heart wood because when cut, the color of the wood will change from brown to a very strange and beautiful purple color. Purple Heart is a very thick, water-resistant wood that is among the top in the world in terms of hardness and durability.
This wood is also known as purple heart wood because when cut, the color of the wood will change from brown to purple.
Currently, the majority of existing Purple Heart trees are located in the Amazon River basin. The size of the tree is up to 30 to 50 meters (100 – 170 ft), trunk diameter up to 1.5 meters (5 ft).
Bubinga – Pink rosewood
Rosewood, also known as rosewood, belongs to the legume family and has the scientific name Kotali. This plant has a slow growth rate and is widely grown in Africa. Rosewood has a reddish brown color with purple or black stripes, smooth grain, and is easy to polish. Bubinga wood is often used to make musical instruments and handicrafts.
African Black Wood
African blackwood, scientifically known as Dalbergia melanoxylon, grows mainly in coastal areas of East Africa, including Tanzania and Mozambique. This type of wood is usually purple brown, almost black. It is ranked among the hardest and densest woods with a fine texture.
This type of wood is extremely rare and in danger of extinction because the African Black Wood tree is overexploited. This wood is often used to make musical instruments, especially guitars.
African blackwood takes about 60 years to grow into a fully mature tree. African blackwood typically costs around $14,000 per cubic meter.
Agar wood
Agarwood has a unique aroma, taken from the old rotten trunk of the agarwood tree, a tree native to tropical forests in Southeast Asia.
Currently, there are about 25 species of Aquilaria trees in the world, but only about 15 species are capable of creating agarwood, of which Vietnamese agarwood is considered to have the best quality in the world.
Bocote wood
Bocote wood is a precious wood belonging to the Cordia genus, a type of flowering plant and found mainly in South America and Mexico. This is a type of wood with beautiful grain and color from light brown to gradually black as the tree ages.
Bocote wood is very fragrant, so in addition to being used to produce music and furniture, this wood is also often refined into aromatherapy essential oils.
Bocote wood is considered one of the expensive types of wood with a selling price of up to 30 USD/30cm, depending on the quality and size of each wood panel.
Dalbergian wood
Dalbergia trees are very rare because they are very picky about the soil they live in, making the price of this type of wood very expensive.
Ebony wood
Ebony wood is jet black, can be submerged in water, and has a smooth and smooth surface. This type of wood is often used to make luxury furniture and musical instruments such as guitars, pianos, violins… The tree species that produce this wood are currently at risk of extinction.
Lignum Vitae wood
This type of wood is very hard and durable, so it is very popular. The Lignum Vitae tree grows very slowly, so this type of wood is very rare.
Sandalwood
Sandalwood gives off a fragrant scent, which can help reduce stress. Therefore, this type of wood is often used to refine essential oils or raw materials for making perfume.
Pink Ivory – Ivory rose wood
This type of wood has a beautiful pink-red color, when polished, it is shiny and is said to be as valuable as diamonds. This precious wood is often used to produce billiard sticks, handicrafts, etc.
Skimmed wood
This type of wood is very special, when burned, it has a fragrance like Agarwood and can be distilled into essential oils like sandalwood. Extracts from mimosa wood have the properties of dissolving swelling, causing sweating and supporting the heart, so they are also widely used in medicine. In Vietnam today, there are also a few varieties of skimmed wood that are very rare and on the verge of extinction due to overexploitation.
Jade wood
According to a famous furniture collector in Vietnam, since ancient times jade has been considered a precious wood that can only be used by kings. The Chinese have known jade wood for thousands of years and consider it as valuable as jade. In royal palaces, if red rosewood is as hard as steel and has beautiful patterns, it is often used to make items such as beds, cabinets, tables and chairs, while jade wood has a charming fragrance and is used a lot in royal rooms. palace of beautiful women.
