Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Philippine mahogany is a common name for several different species of trees and their wood. Botanically, the name refers to Toona calantas in the mahogany family, Meliaceae. It is endemic to the Philippines. In the US timber trade, it is often applied to wood of the genus Shorea in the family Dipterocarpaceae.
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 native to southeastern Asia, northern Australasia, and the western Pacific Ocean islands, in Cambodia, southernmost China, East Timor ...
Toona calantas is a species of tree in the mahogany family.It is found in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand.It is threatened by habitat loss. [1] It is commonly known as kalantas (also spelled calantas), lanipga (in Visayan and Bikol), [2] ample (in Batanes), [2] bantinan (in Cagayan and Mountain Province), [2] danupra (in Zambales and Ilocos Norte), [2] Philippine cedar, or Philippine ...
The "Philippine mahogany" sold in North America is not a true mahogany at all, but a mixture of woods from the genus Shorea. Other products from Shorea spp. include dammar and illipe . Dammar is a resin collected from a variety of species.
Honduran mahogany tree, Swietenia macrophylla Wood from Honduran mahogany. Mahogany is a straight-grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwood species of the genus Swietenia, indigenous to the Americas [1] and part of the pantropical chinaberry family, Meliaceae. Mahogany is used commercially for a wide variety of goods, due to its ...
Natal mahogany, Trichilia emetica; Philippine mahogany: Shorea in the dipterocarp family Dipterocarpaceae; Toona calantas and other species in the mahogany family Meliaceae; Red mahogany: Eucalyptus pellita; Eucalyptus resinifera; Eucalyptus scias, large-fruited red mahogany; Southern mahogany, Eucalyptus botryoides; Swamp mahogany:
Shorea almon (called, along with some other species in the genus Shorea, light red meranti, Philippine mahogany, or white lauan) [1] is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is native to Borneo and the Philippines .
Wellex Industries, Inc. is a Filipino company engaged in mining and oil exploration in the Philippines. Currently headquartered in Ortigas Center, Pasig City, it is one of The Wellex Group's six major business segments. [2] The company was founded in October 1956 as Republic Resources and Development Corporation (also known as REDECO