- 🌿 Botanical Name
- Swietenia macrophylla
- 👨👩👦 Family
- Meliaceae
- 🗣️ Vernacular Names
- Big-Leaf Mahogany, Mahogany.
- 🌼 Flowering – Fruiting
- March – April.
- 🌍 Distribution
- Native to Tropical America.
- 💡 Status
- Vulnerable.
Description: Large deciduous tree. Leaves paripinnate, leaflets 3-6 pairs, ovate-lanceolate. Flowers white, in axillary panicles that are shorter than leaves. Fruit large, woody, globose capsule.
Uses: Grown as ornamental and shade tree. Wood is used as timber.