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Mahogany
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Mahogany

Swietenia

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). The wood of Swietenia trees is known as mahogany.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Big-leaf Mahogany

speciesSwietenia macrophylla

West Indian Mahogany

speciesSwietenia mahagoni

Honduras Mahogany

speciesSwietenia humilis

Swietenia × aubrevilleana

hybridSwietenia × aubrevilleana

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 155941.