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Swietenia macrophylla. First published in Hooker's Icon. Pl. 16: t. 1550 (1886) The native range of this species is Mexico to Bolivia and Brazil. It is a tree and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome. It is used as animal food, a medicine and invertebrate food, has environmental uses and for food.
Description. Habit: Large tree. G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram. Deciduous trees, to 25 m high; bark brown.
Swietenia macrophylla, commonly known as mahogany, Honduran mahogany, Honduras mahogany, or big-leaf mahogany 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 .
Originating from tropical America, Swietenia macrophylla was introduced into Asia, the Pacific and Africa. S. macrophylla is commonly grown in Singapore as an ornamental roadside tree and is one of the world's most valuable source of hardwood timber used to make furniture.
Swietenia macrophylla, the only species still with commercially exploitable natural populations, is a massively buttressed, light-demanding canopy-emergent, reaching heights of up to 70 m and diameter at breast height (dbh) of 3.5 m.
Swietenia macrophylla, native to southern Mexico, Central and South America, and perhaps the most valuable timber in the whole of tropical Latin America, is a species with an extensive tropical distribution from the north of the State of Veracruz to Yucatan in Mexico, and along the north Atlantic slope of Central America to Venezuela and Brazil.
Swietenia macrophylla, otherwise known as Big Leaf Mahogany or Honduras Mahogany, is a slow-growing, tall, tropical tree reaching a height of about 40-60 m. Often buttressed, the trunk is covered with gray and cracked bark.
Swietenia macrophylla produces one of the world's best known furniture timbers. It has been internationally traded and utilized for timber for over 400 years. It is a moderately-fast growing species with generally favourable plantation silvicultural characteristics, and may produce sawn timber under a 30 to 40-year rotation.
One of the three true mahogany trees, Big-leaf Mahogany (known variously under a large number of names) are famous for their high-quality wood, often used in furniture production. Overharvesting has left mahogany populations at risk, with declines of up to 70% since the 1950s.
Sep 19, 2012 · At heights reaching 200 feet, the big-leaf mahogany tree shoots through the top of the rainforest canopy. This majestic tree, which can live upward of 350 years, is an integral part of the rainforest ecosystem and is an important resource for local communities.
