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  • White Oak

    One anatomical quirk - pores plugged shut from the inside - built the wooden navy, and it still puts every drop of bourbon in the country inside a brand new barrel.

    • Quercus alba
  • Northern Red Oak

    The open-pored half of the oak woods: the benchmark American flooring hardwood, the group a scaler separates before he quotes a price, and the oak that oak wilt can kill in a single season.

    • Quercus rubra
  • Acacia & Black Locust

    Two different trees, one shared name, and a hundred years of people arguing past each other. One of them is the hardest rot-proof post wood in North America.

    • Robinia pseudoacacia (and the true acacias, Vachellia spp.)