Where does Mahogany wood come from?
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All over the world. There are several species of Mahogany. There is tropical american mahogony that grows in central and south america. African mahongany that grows - well - in Africa. Asian mahogany that grows in china, Thailand, Indonesia, etc. Phillipine mahogany that grows in the islands of the Pacific. And so on. The woods have differences in characteristics. Some are used for furniture, some for specialty grade plywood. Some for veneers, and the best of the best for musical instruments. Interestingly, there is no north american or european mahogony.
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Ovankol is an African wood roughly as strong as mahogany. It is one of many exotic woods presently being used as sides and backs of acoustic guitars.
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They can be made out of  koa wood, Chestnut, rowan ,bamboo and hickory and others
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Timber: sapwood light brown and heartwood dark reddish brown to dark brown. attractive light black figure, strong, very hard and heavy (air-dry 1.1 t/m3)\n\nSeasoning: It dries quickly in small dimensions, slowly in large dimentions.\n\nEconomic value: a popular wood for turnery, carving, cabinet making and furniture. The wood darkens with age.
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If you have m*rning wood!
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Spalted Maple\n\n\nMaple wood with a dark veins caused by a pattern of rot or bacteria in the wood that once stabilized often looks like a pen and ink drawing through the wood.
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From a South American rainforest:\n\nTrees: "palo rosa" Aspidosperma polyneuron, a tree from the emergent stratum.\n"guatambú blanco", Balfourodendron riedelianum, a tree from the canopy (continuous upper layer)\nbamboo, Guadua chacoensis, from the underbrush\nEpiphytes: Oncidium bifolium, an orchid, Microgramma, climbing ferns.
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A manufactured wood product is a product in which some sort of manufacturing process takes place on raw timber from trees.\n\nSome examples are:\n1. furniture;\n2. milled timber for house frames and roof trusses;\n3. decorative items such as polished wood sculptures and turned and polished shapes;\n4. hand crafted decorative items;\n5. particle board and associated cupboards and shelving;\n6. boats including dinghies and sail boats although in this modern age fibreglass and aluminium have replaced timber\n7. paper
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The oak came from islands off the coast of Georgia.\nThe masts came from Unity, Maine.\nThe pine decking came from South Carolina.\nThe keel was provided by New Jersey\nPaul Revere (of Boston) provided the spikes and copper sheathing.
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May not have exactly what you're looking for, but I'm sure they have something close.\nhttp://www.woodworkersworkshop.com/resources/index.php?cat=102
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could be from Malaysia. Good luck!
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The Quiapo church is in Manila, Philipines....It´s an antigue  life sized figure of Jesus carved in wood that was originally from Mexico\n\nWould this help you in any way?\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Nazarene\nhttp://www.nathanielturner.com/blacknazarene.htm
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Jade,\n\nI'll tackle the second part of your question, since the first part has already been addressed with several different choices. \n\nYou can also find out more right here on Y!Answers by doing a search for "Janka scale" because several questions have addressed wood hardness in various ways.\n\nNow for the "why don't they use it for building?"\n\nOpinion only, but I think the simple answer is cost. A secondary answer would be the difficulty of working with it.\n\nWe're talking about woods that are roughly three times harder than oak. Wood from trees that do not grow very large in girth. A 12" tree, quarter sawn, would at best produce only a few boards. Those boards would break or wear out the standard tools that a carpenter works with very quickly.\n\nAll woods are being used less in construction except for decorative elements. In the US, which still depends on on-site stick & nail construction more than Europe, wooden elements are being replaced with wood composites and other materials that replace the traditional beams, studs and flooring. Cost, availability (at a reasonable price), and the ability to be easily worked with.\n\nLook in new home construction. Basement -- wood composite I-beams. Living area -- drywall on steel studs, "hardwood" floors that are a composite wood base with a thin laminate and a coat of plastic over it.\n\nNow where they have "real" wood, it's featured! Mantles, moldings, trim, architectural elements -- and it raises the price of the house.\n\nWe're not short of trees. We're short of *old-growth* trees. Trees are farmed now, and the trees of choice are fast-growing softwoods. \n\nWhere there are hardwoods, the furniture makers and musical instrument makers are willing to bid more for them than the construction industry.\n\nHope that helps with the second part of your question.
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Furniture is sanded smooth and then usually a varnish is applied. The varnish protects the wood and gives it the shiny surface. THUS the reflection.
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Trex.....the fake wood\n\nhttp://www.trex.com/
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not easily, wood is a complex composite material that we can't replicate even using all of the modern materials that we have develped.
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Maybe Stickley furniture?  It was made by Gustav Stickley- check the link.