Dalbergia

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Dalbergia >

Read about Dalbergia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Dalbergia (N. Dalberg, a Swedish botanist, 1730 to 1820). Leguminosae. Nearly 100 species of trees, shrubs, or climbers, belonging to tropical regions all over the world, a few of which have been introduced to North America, one for timber. Leaves alternate, odd-pinnate (rarely 1-foliolate) without stipules: fls. small, numerous, purple, violet or white, in forking cymes or irregular cyme-like 1216. Wild aster, orpanicles, which are axillary or terminal, papilionaceous, with ovate or orbicular standard: fr. an indehiscent narrow pod, 1-seeded at middle and with few seeds toward the ends, the seeds compressed and reniform. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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Species

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• Dalbergia baroni – Madagascar Rosewood, Palisander Rosewood, Palissandre Voamboana
• Dalbergia brownei – Coin Vine
• Dalbergia cearensis – Kingwood
• Dalbergia cochinchinensis – Siamese Rosewood, Thailand Rosewood, Tracwood
• Dalbergia decipularis – Tulipwood
• Dalbergia ecastaphyllum – Coinvine
• Dalbergia frutescens (Syn. Dalbergia variabilis) – Brazilian Tulipwood, Jacarandá Rosa, Pau de Fuso, Pau Rosa, Pinkwood, Tulipwood
• Dalbergia latifolia – Bombay Blackwood, East Indian Rosewood, Indian Palisandre, Indian Rosewood, Java Palisandre, Malabar, Sonokeling, Shisham, Sitsal
• Dalbergia melanoxylon – African Blackwood, African Ebony, African Grenadilo, Banbanus, Ebene, Granadilla, Granadille d'Afrique, Mpingo, Pau Preto, Poyi, Zebrawood
• Dalbergia monetaria – Moneybush
• Dalbergia nigra – Bahia Rosewood, Brazilian Rosewood, Cabiuna, Caviuna, Jacarandá, Jacarandá De Brasil, Palisander, Palisandre da Brésil, Pianowood, Rio Rosewood, Rosewood, Obuina
• Dalbergia palescrito – Palo Escrito
• Dalbergia retusa – Caviuna, Cocobolo, Cocobolo Prieto, Funeram, Granadillo, Jacarandáholz, Nambar, Nicaraguan Rosewood, Palisander, Palissandro, Palo Negro, Pau Preto, Rosewood, Urauna
• Dalbergia sissoo – Agara, Agaru, Errasissu, Gette, Hihu, Indian Rosewood, Iruvil, Iti, Khujrap, Padimi, Safedar, Sheesham, Shinshapa, Shisham, Shishma, Shishom, Sinsupa, Sissoo, Sisu, Tali, Tenach, Tukreekung, Yette
• Dalbergia stevensonii – Honduras Rosewood, Nogaed
• Dalbergia tonkinensis
• Dalbergia tucarensis – Guatemalan Rosewood
• Dalbergia variabilis (Syn. Dalbergia frutescens)

Gallery

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  Dalbergia lanceolaria‎: Leaves in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

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  Dalbergia lanceolaria‎: Dried Pods in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

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  Dalbergia lanceolaria‎: Trunk in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

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  Dalbergia lanceolaria‎: Pods in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

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  Dalbergia lanceolaria‎: Old trunk in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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