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Dalbergia nigra is endemic to Brazil, and native to the Bahia interior forests ecoregion. [5] It is endemic to the Atlantic Forest biome of southeastern Brazil, and found only in southern Bahia, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, and Rio de Janeiro states. [4] It needs a habitat of wet and damp forest on rich soils to thrive. [5]
Chess pieces in Dalbergia latifolia rosewood A Ming Dynasty rosewood wardrobe, 16th century. Genuine rosewoods belong to the genus Dalbergia. The pre-eminent rosewood appreciated in the Western world is the wood of Dalbergia nigra. [2] It is best known as "Brazilian rosewood", [3] but also as "Bahia rosewood".
Dalbergia is a large genus of small to medium-size trees, shrubs and lianas in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. It was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Dalbergia clade (or tribe): the Dalbergieae .
Dalbergia: true rosewoods; Dalbergia bariensis: Burmese rosewood Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Dalbergia baronii: Madagascar rosewood; madaga Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Dalbergia congestifloria: kingwood Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Dalbergia decipularis: tulipwood Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Dalbergia frutescens: pau rosa
Dalbergia oliveri [4] is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae which grows in tree form to 15 – 30 meters in height (up to 100 ft.). The fruit is a green pod containing one to two seeds which turn brown to black when ripe.
Jacarandá de Brasil (Dalbergia nigra) Jatobá (Hymenaea courbaril) Kingwood (Dalbergia cearensis) Lacewood. Northern silky oak (Cardwellia sublimis) American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) London plane (Platanus × hispanica) Limba (Terminalia superba) Locust Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) Honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) Mahogany
A Dalbergia latifolia tree stands on roadside at Bogor, Java. The tree produces a hard, durable, heavy wood that, when properly cured, is durable and resistant to rot and insects. [4] It is grown as a plantation wood in both India and Java, often in dense, single species groves, to produce its highly desirable long straight bore. [4]
The tribe Dalbergieae is an early-branching clade within the flowering plant subfamily Faboideae (or Papilionaceae). Within that subfamily, it belongs to an unranked clade called the dalbergioids . [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was recently revised to include many genera formerly placed in tribes Adesmieae and Aeschynomeneae [ 5 ] and to be included in ...