The Atlas
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.
2,978 listings · 186 dealer codes · 88 species · 21 families, live today
The Wood Key
Liriodendron tulipifera, a magnolia relative and not a true poplar (Populus), growing from southern Ontario through the eastern and central United States to the Gulf Coast; white sapwood against a cream to tan heartwood that is often streaked greenish brown, dark green, purple, blue or black by mineral uptake, straight-grained and uniform in texture, with the colours darkening on exposure to light.
Where it sits
backs and sides
1 on the soundbox · 1 builder
How dealers write it
Tulip Poplar
How it files
Who’s building with it
Not CITES-listedchecked, not merely absent · as of 2026-08-09
Read from Commission Regulation (EU) 2026/1383, cross-checked against the USDA APHIS CITES Timber Species Manual — the 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.
