Is there a good website on hardwoods?

Irish Flute
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I’m interested in more information on different exotic hardwoods, not just the ones commonly used in flute manufacture but furniture and decorative woods as well. Ofcourse as a fluter I’m mostly interested in the different qualities on tonewoods, but it would be nice to have a source of information on most of all exotic hardwood types, their relationship to each other, where they grow, how they look, their names in latin, what family they are, grain patterns, area of usefullness, density, weight and so on. Does anyone know of a good website with this kind of information? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

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Here’s one:

http://www.hibdonhardwood.com/speciesinfo/SpeciesSelect.html

I’ll post more when I find 'em…I’m still looking…

Here’s where the above site got it’s info (I think):

http://www2.fpl.fs.fed.us/TechSheets/tropicalwood.html