Yew wood is a good wood, smooth grain, free from termites, cracks, warping, light porous, easy to process and has high economic value. This is a beautiful grained wood with two basic types: banana grain with a fairly sparse distance and the grain, which is small and located close to each other.

In particular, yew wood has a large amount of essential oil, has a pleasant aroma, and always produces resin despite making products. That fragrance is what comes to mind with fake yew.

In particular, the green yew wood is located under the mud, the wet environment has made the wood block turn a very beautiful natural black-green color. Green yew is often located deep underground, even under hydroelectric lakes, so it is very difficult to exploit.

Red cedar is a dry tree that is usually dark red-brown in color, with small veins and sometimes black spots on the trunk of the block.

How many types of yew wood are there? Is the quality good?

Yew wood is a good wood, fragrant, smooth, no termites, cracks, warping, yew wood is easy to work, porous and light, so it is used for lids, cork, thermos, lifebuoys. born,…

Yew wood created a craze for a long time, because of its feng shui properties and beautiful wood grain. There are two types of yew wood:

Green yew wood

Green yew is a block of yew wood that has been soaked in mud for hundreds of years. The humid environment has caused the wood block to turn a beautiful natural black-green color. Usually buried deep underground in the Central Highlands.

Some blocks are even located deep under the reservoir. So finding and mining a green cedar block takes a lot of time and effort.

Green Thuy Tung wood blocks often have darker veins and more beautiful colors than Red Thuy Tung. The veins are bold and sharp, gently curving to form extremely beautiful circles.

Green yew is usually much older than red yew, but the green yew block buried in the ground for hundreds of years has turned into a dark green color like marble blocks, extremely unique.

Green cedar wood has high aesthetics as well as toxicity and is rare, so the price is very high. Wealthy homeowners are willing to spend hundreds of millions on Maitreya statues or pairs of water hyacinths from green cedar.

Red yew wood

Red yew is a type of wood that lives in arid environments. Currently, the Green part is the preferred type and has a higher value. Red water pine is red or dark brown. The veins of red cedar are usually small and sometimes black spots on the trunk of the wood block.

Red pine is mainly made into water hyacinth, a few are Maitreya statues, wooden crates. The prices of products from Red Yew are relatively high, from several tens of millions to hundreds of millions.

A few years ago, the amount of yew wood was large, people bought a very large log, creating beautiful works. At this time, the amount of yew wood is increasingly scarce and the unique characteristics of yew mean that the price of yew wood is also higher than that of other precious woods.

Application of the yew tree variety

Yew wood is very good with no termites, no warping, very beautiful colors and wood grain, used for fine art decoration, high-class furniture.

According to scientific research in feng shui, yew wood has the effect of prosperity, so leading artisans in Vietnam often use this wood to make water hyacinths or sculpt statues with the meaning of bringing peace and luck. for the homeowner.

Ripe branches and cones are used as medicine for rheumatism, pain relief, and skin tightening. The tree has a beautiful shape, can be planted as an ornamental or planted along the lake to keep the soil against erosion.

Current price of yew wood?

The yew tree is endangered as it is becoming extinct due to the destruction of its habitat and now only 100 individuals of wood remain. Currently, it is estimated that there are only more than 150 yew trees left in our country, but all of them are in a severely damaged state.

That further increases the thirst for products made from yew wood. Therefore, the cost of pine wood is many times higher than that of other types of wood.

According to the current market price survey, 1m2 of yew wood with a diameter of about 80cm falls at about VND 250-300 million. There are even 300-year-old yew wooden statues of Maitreya that will be sold for billions of dong.

So the price is really high, not everyone can afford to buy products made from this type of wood.