Rosewood from Madagascar

[Adolf Ceska]

On Sun, 8 Aug 1999 dx-zhang at 163.NET wrote:

> Dear Taxacomer,
> I received a wood specimen  recently. It is either
> a Dalbergia or Pterocarpus species from Madagascar. The timber is dark red
> in colour and named "rosewood". I'll be very grateful if you can tell my the
> species name or at least a list of possible candidates.

>From Uphof (1968) Dictionary of economic plants:

"Dalbergia Baroni Baker. (Leguminosaceae [sic!]) - Tree. Madagascar. Wood
is source of Rosewood of Madagascar. Also D. Greveana Baill."

In another book I found it under "Dalbergia greveana."

I hope that's what you have.

Regards,

Adolf Ceska

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