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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 ]
Spring Meadow Nursery is located in Grand Haven, Michigan US and is one of the largest providers of "proprietary" plant materials in North America [1] In 2004, Spring Meadow joined with Proven Winners as their exclusive woody plant licensee to select, develop, distribute, and market Proven Winners ColorChoice Shrubs.
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] The wood of Swietenia trees is known as mahogany.
Mahogany is the national tree of the Dominican Republic [8] and Belize. [9] A mahogany tree with two woodcutters bearing an axe and a paddle also appears on the Belizean national coat of arms, under the national motto, Sub umbra floreo, Latin for "under the shade I flourish." [9] The specific density of mahogany is 0.55. [10]
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 .
Clayton Rakes, decorated by the Yozwiak family, won the top price of $750 at the Case-Barlow Farm Winter Wonderland tree decorating contest. Pictured are Brady and Brooklyn, the children of Hudson ...
Exotic trees and shrubs such as Brazilian pepper (Schinus terebinthifolius) are problematic in hammocks throughout South Florida, including undisturbed areas in the Everglades. Coastal berm hammocks along the shores of Florida Bay have been heavily impacted by the sprawling vine-like shrub latherleaf ( Colubrina asiatica ).
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.