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The Wood Key

Tonewood Atlas is a live index of what the boutique acoustic world has on its shelves right now, gathered from independent dealers and normalised into one vocabulary. This page is the key to how we read wood — every classification choice, shown.

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The Wood Key

Padauk

Pterocarpus spp. · hardwood · in the Other Hardwood family

Pterocarpus spp. — a genus of roughly 37 species across the tropics, so “padauk” covers at least two different woods: African padauk (P. soyauxii), a vivid reddish orange when cut that darkens substantially to reddish or purplish brown, and Burmese padauk (P. macrocarpus), less red and running pale golden yellow to reddish brown over distinct yellow sapwood.

Where it sits

no position recorded

none in stock today

How dealers write it

Padauk

How it files

28 codes27 species1 family

CITES status depends on the speciesand this name does not say which · as of 2026-08-09

Read from Commission Regulation (EU) 2026/1383, cross-checked against the USDA APHIS CITES Timber Species Manualthe document. We do not give legal advice and have not checked any individual instrument’s paperwork: this species carries this status on this date. Ask the dealer about documentation.