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Janka hardness
Spotted gum
2,473lbf
92 percent harder than red oak.
An Australian hardwood nearly twice as hard as red oak, once named a eucalyptus.
- Botanical
- Corymbia maculata
- Also called
- Formerly Eucalyptus maculata
- Kind
- Hardwood (a broadleaf tree), Australia
- In newtons
- 11.0 kN
- Source
- NWFA species guide, 2004, Page 7 chart
- Part of
- Eucalyptus
We do not carry spotted gum floors today.
The floor we carry closest to it in hardness is Hickory, at 1,820 lbf, with 250 colors to choose from.
Where it sits among every floor wood.
Hardest first. Floors we carry in oak brown, the rest in tan, red oak in black. How the Janka test works.
The number is a start. The floor is the answer.
Hardness is one fact among many: the finish, the sheen, the width and how the house is lived in all count. A free visit puts one of us in your rooms to weigh them with you.