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Pterocarpus indicus (commonly known as Amboyna wood, Malay padauk, Papua New Guinea rosewood, Philippine mahogany, Andaman redwood, Burmese rosewood, narra [3] (from Tagalog [4]) and asana in the Philippines, angsana, or Pashu padauk) is a species of Pterocarpus of the Sweet Pea Family (Papilionaceae) native to southeastern Asia, northern Australasia, and the western Pacific Ocean islands, in ...
[6] [7] The wood from the narra tree and the Burmese padauk tree (P. macrocarpus) is marketed as amboyna when it has grown in the burl form. [8] The scientific name is Latinized Ancient Greek and means "wing fruit", referring to the unusual shape of the seed pods in this genus.
Amboyna or amboina may refer to: Amboyna, a play by John Dryden; Amboyna massacre, in 1623 in Indonesia; Amboina box turtle (Cuora amboinensis), of Asia; Amboina king parrot (Alisterus amboinensis), of Indonesia; Amboyna, a moth genus; Amboyna burl of Pterocarpus trees; Ambon Island, sometimes named Amboyna, part of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia
The Dutch and English enclaves at Amboyna (top) and Banda-Neira (bottom). 1655 engraving. The Amboyna massacre [1] (also known as the Amboyna trial) [2] was the 1623 torture and execution on Ambon Island (present-day Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia) of twenty-one men, including ten in the service of the English East India Company, as well as Japanese and Portuguese traders and a Portuguese man, [3 ...
Burl formation is typically a result of some form of stress such as an injury or a viral or fungal infection. Burls yield a very peculiar and highly figured wood sought after in woodworking, and some items may reach high prices on the wood market. Poaching of burl specimens and damaging the trees in the process poses a problem in some areas.
In 1673, the poet John Dryden produced his tragedy Amboyna; or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants. An Ambonese couple, European illustration from the 17th century. Meanwhile, the VOC imposed a monopoly on clove production that was concentrated in Ambon and a few adjacent islands.
Although more commonly a feminine given name, it has been used in the past as a masculine name, predominantly in the United States. Use as a male name likely comes from a variant spelling of the surname Burrell, whose seeming root is the Old French bovre, a reddish-brown woolen fabric with the resultant name denoting a worker in the wool trade.
Rites of the Gods is an archaeological study of religious belief and ritual practices across prehistoric Britain from the Old Stone Age through to the Iron Age.Written by the prominent English archaeologist and megalithic specialist Aubrey Burl, it was first published in 1981 by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.