West Indian mahogany
swietenia mahagoni latin

The national flower is the Bayahibe Rose and the national tree is the West Indian Mahogany.

Her grandparents had bought this table in Ireland, a solid slab of West Indian mahogany, lustrous after thousands of patient rubbings and waxings.

Logging for West Indian mahogany and buttonwood has also occurred in hammocks along the northern shores of Florida Bay (Craighead 1971).

Tropical trees like the West Indian mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni) were probably spread by birds carrying seeds from the West Indies.

Swietenia mahagoni - West Indian Mahogany (Southern Florida, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola)

Tropical hardwood hammocks in the Everglades have been harvested for lumber, particularly by shipbuilders seeking West Indian mahogany and black ironwood (Krugiodendron ferreum).

Characteristic lowland species are Haitian Catalpa (Catalpa longissima), particularly in well-drained soils, and West Indian Mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni).

The Cuban Amazon feeds on a number of fruits and seeds including the fruits of palm trees and West Indian mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni) seeds.

International trade in mahogany for shipbuilding, fine furniture, cabinetmaking, musical instruments, coffins and other uses has been intense since the 1500's, and the supply of another type called West Indian mahogany, found on Caribbean islands, was exhausted early in this century.

The Dominican Republic's national flower is the Caoba [Swietenia mahagoni] or Mahogany tree flower.

Characteristic lowland species are Haitian Catalpa (Catalpa longissima), particularly in well-drained soils, and West Indian Mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni).

Two boardwalks allow visitors to walk through a cypress forest at Pa-Hay-O-Kee, which also features a two-story overlook, and another at Mahogany Hammock (referring to Swietenia mahagoni) that takes hikers through a dense forest in the middle of a freshwater marl prairie.