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Dalbergia melanoxylon (African blackwood, grenadilla, or mpingo) in French Granadille d'Afrique is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to seasonally dry regions of Africa from Senegal east to Eritrea, to southern regions of Tanzania to Mozambique and south to the north-eastern parts of South Africa.
This tree can also be used as a fire barrier plant, amongst other plants, in rural situations. Plain and figured Australian blackwood is used in musical instrument making (in particular guitars, drums, Hawaiian ukuleles, violin bows and organ pipes), and in recent years has become increasingly valued as a substitute for koa wood.
African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), a timber tree of Africa; African blackwood (Erythrophleum africanum), (Peltophorum africanum) also Rhodesian blackwood, trees from Africa; Australian blackwood (Senegalia modesta Syn.: Acacia modesta), a tree from India, Pakistan, Nepal and Himalaya; Australian blackwood (Diospyros longibracteata ...
Acacia penninervis, commonly known as mountain hickory wattle, or blackwood, [3] is a perennial shrub or tree is an Acacia belonging to subgenus Phyllodineae, [4] that is native to eastern Australia. Description
Peltophorum africanum, the weeping wattle, is a semi-deciduous to deciduous flowering tree growing to about 15 meters tall. It is native to Africa south of the equator. Their yellow flowers bloom on the ends of branches in upright, showy sprays.
Haematoxylum campechianum (blackwood, bloodwood tree, bluewood, campeachy tree, campeachy wood, campeche logwood, campeche wood, Jamaica wood, logwood or logwood tree) [2] is a species of flowering tree in the legume family, Fabaceae, that is native to southern Mexico, and introduced to the Caribbean, northern Central America, and other localities around the world.
However, the tree is slow-growing; Javanese plantations were started in the late nineteenth century, but, due to its slow growth, plantations have not expanded beyond Java and India. [4] Many once popular uses for D. latifolia wood have now been replaced with Dalbergia sissoo wood and engineered rosewoods , for economic purposes in cottage ...
Acacia argyrodendron, known colloquially as black gidyea or blackwood, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a tree with hard, furrowed bark, narrowly linear to elliptic phyllodes , golden yellow flowers arranged in racemes , and linear pods up to 120 mm (4.7 in) long.