Commercial availability

4 timber groups that reflect their commercial availability in the Queensland market: 'Commercial' timber groups include 'structura'l and 'appearance' grade timbers; 'Any' timber group includes timbers that are not readily available.

This filter assigns the 787 timber taxa listed in QTimber to four groups:

  • Commercial: 110 more commonly available timbers. It is a subset of the complete list of timbers potentially available in Queensland (2017, subject to change). Not necessarily available in all regions of Queensland. This group includes all the timbers in the 'structural' and 'appearance' groups.
  • Appearance: 97 of the commercial group that are considered 'appearance' grade*
  • Structural: 34 of the commercial group that are considered 'structural' grade*
  • Any: All timbers in the list of 787. Many of these have limited availability in the Queensland market.

*Some timbers are in both the structural and appearance grade groups.


Below are a list of values users can choose for this field group.

  • All commercial - 110 commercially available timbers in Queensland
  • Appearance - 97 appearance timbers that are most commercially available in Queensland.
  • Structural - 34 structural timbers that are most commercially available in Queensland.