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Swietenia macrophylla, commonly known as mahogany, [3] Honduran mahogany, [3] Honduras mahogany, [4] or big-leaf mahogany [5] is a species of plant in the Meliaceae family. It is one of three species that yields genuine mahogany timber ( Swietenia ), the others being Swietenia mahagoni and Swietenia humilis .
According to Record and Hess, all of the mahogany of continental North and South America can be considered as one botanical species, Swietenia macrophylla King. [26] Both major species of Swietenia were introduced in several countries outside of the Americas during the 1800s and early 1900s using seeds from South America and the Caribbean. Many ...
Swietenia is a genus of trees in the chinaberry family, Meliaceae. It occurs natively in the Neotropics , from southern Florida , the Caribbean , Mexico and Central America south to Bolivia . The genus is named for Dutch-Austrian physician Gerard van Swieten (1700–1772). [ 3 ]
Swietenia macrophylla, a large tree with a broad native range from Central America to South America, and cultivated in Asia for timber production. Index of plants with the same common name This page is an index of articles on plant species (or higher taxonomic groups) with the same common name ( vernacular name).
Meliaceae, the mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs (and a few herbaceous plants, mangroves) in the order Sapindales.. They are characterised by alternate, usually pinnate leaves without stipules, and by syncarpous, [2] apparently bisexual (but actually mostly cryptically unisexual) flowers borne in panicles, cymes, spikes or clusters.
Swietenia macrophylla; Swietenia mahagoni; Mahogany This page was last edited on 31 March 2013, at 19:11 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Swietenia humilis; Swietenia macrophylla (Populations of the Neotropics) Swietenia mahagoni; Tangara fastuosa; Tapirus terrestris; Tauraco spp. Taxus chinensis and infraspecific taxa of this species; Taxus cuspidata and infraspecific taxa of this species; Taxus fuana (a synonym of Taxus contorta) and infraspecific taxa of this species
Swietenia humilis is a species of tree in the family Meliaceae. It is one of three species in the genus Swietenia, all three of which are regarded as "genuine mahogany." At 6 metres (20 ft), it is one-fifth the height of S. mahagoni and one-sixth the height of S. macrophylla. Its species name, humilis, means "small" or "dwarfish".