The French national forest inventory records information on more than 190 different tree species, including 142 broadleaves!
A main species is defined as a tree species whose canopy cover is the highest on a given plot. The main species covering the French territory are oaks, beech, Maritime pine, Scots pine, Silver fir or Norway spruce. The spatial distribution of these species is displayed on Figure 1.
| Interactive map ! Select the species you want to visualize using the button on the top left side of the map. 
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A list of tree species specifically used for wood production has been established by the French NFI:
| Ash | Alder | Aspen | Beech |
| Birch | Wild cherry or gean | Chesnut-tree | Dogwood |
| Elm | Eucalyptus | Evergreen oak | Hackberry-tree |
| Hornbeam | Red oak | Willow or sallow | Green alder |
| Hazel | Laburnum | Norway maple, sycomore maple | Small maple |
| Cork oak | Pedunculate oak | Pubescent oak | Pyrenean oak |
| Red oak | Sessile oak | Turkey oak | Ostrya |
| Cultivated poplar | Non cultivated poplar | Lime-tree | Locust tree |
| Olive-tree | Plane tree | Stranberry-tree | Tiluptree |
| Walnut tree | Wild service tree | Other fruit-tree | Other domestic broadleaves |
| Other exotic broadleaves |
| Atlas cedar | Lebanon cedar | Cypress | American fir |
| Mediterranean fir | Nordmann’s fir | Silver fir | French alpine juniper |
| Common Larch | Exotic larch | Douglas fir | Aleppo pine |
| Arolla pine | Black pine | Loblolly pine | Maritime pine |
| Mountain pine (pinus uncinata) | Mountain pine (pinus mughus) | Stone pine | Weymouth pine |
| Norway spruce | Sitka spruce | Other exotic conifers | Other domestic conifers |
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