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Paubrasilia echinata is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae, that is endemic to the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. [4] [5] It is a Brazilian timber tree commonly known as Pernambuco wood or brazilwood [6] (Portuguese: pau-de-pernambuco, pau-brasil; [6] Tupi: ybyrapytanga [7]) and is the national tree of Brazil. [5]
The brazilwood tree, which gives Brazil its name, has dark, valuable wood and provides red dye. The Tupi speakers' agriculture was key in their cooperation with the Portuguese during the pre-colonial period. During this time, the primary objective of the Portuguese in the region was to harvest and export Brazilwood.
At the beginning of his government, Veiga ordered the organization of an expedition to seize Paraíba, but abandoned it when he was informed that Frutuoso Barbosa, a wealthy brazilwood merchant who lived in Pernambuco, had offered to conquer and colonize the area in exchange for being the captain-major of the territory for ten years.
Cruiser C Tamandaré (center) escorted by the Fletcher-class destroyers Pará (D-27), Paraíba (D-28), Paraná (D-29) and Pernambuco (D-30) in 1961, during the Lobster War. The Lobster War , a conflict that occurred between 1961 and 1963, was centered on the illegal capture of lobsters by French fishing boats in territorial waters off the coast ...
The Northeast Region is composed of nine states, with 1793 municipalities [Note 3] and two special municipalities, Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago and Fernando de Noronha Archipelago; there are no unincorporated areas. Brazilian states are divided into Mesoregions, and Mesoregions into Microregions, each region representing a group of ...
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Paubrasilia, commonly called Pernambuco or Brazilwood, is the most sought-after material for the bows of classical stringed instruments, because of its effects on the tones they produce. [6] Blackwood (Tasmanian/Australian). [7] Walnut is often used for the backs and sides of guitars and mandolin family instruments. [8]
Brazilwood should link to it, which is seems to already do. There already is a section the notes the term Brazilwood as at times been applied to other species, which as probably lead to some confusion in both historical and modern text. Clearly none of this is helped by the recent taxonomic revision of the genus.