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Swietenia mahagoni, commonly known as American mahogany, Cuban mahogany, small-leaved mahogany, and West Indian mahogany, [1] is a species of Swietenia native to the broader Caribbean bioregion. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] It is the species from which the original mahogany wood was produced. [ 5 ]
Mahogany is wood from any of three tree species: Honduran or big-leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla), West Indian or Cuban mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni), and Swietenia humilis. Honduran mahogany is the most widespread and the only genuine mahogany species commercially grown today.
The genus is famed as the supplier of mahogany, at first yielded by Swietenia mahagoni, a Caribbean species, which was so extensively used locally and exported that its trade ended by the 1950s. These days almost all mahogany is yielded by the mainland species, Swietenia macrophylla , although no longer from its native locations due to the ...
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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 .
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These include woods of the mahogany family (Meliaceae) such as the Cuban mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni), that can reach heights of 30–35 m, the ceiba family (Malvacae) such as Ceiba pentandra, than can grow up to 60–70 m tall and the cedar family such as the red cedar (Cedrela odorata) that can grow up to 60 m in height. [33]