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Bloodwood is a common name for several unrelated trees, including: * ''

Baloghia inophylla ''Baloghia inophylla'' is a rainforest tree of eastern Australia. It is also known as the brush bloodwood, as it occurs in brushes, (a nineteenth-century term for rainforest), as well as bloodwood, as the clear sap is blood red. Other common nam ...

'' (Brush or Scrub bloodwood), ''

Baloghia marmorata ''Baloghia marmorata'' is a rare rainforest plant of eastern Australia. It is commonly known as the marbled baloghia. Distribution Occurring in a few places in the Big Scrub, such as Victoria Park Nature Reserve and Davis Scrub Nature Reserve ...

'' (Marbled bloodwood), ''

Baloghia parviflora ''Baloghia'' is a genus of plants under the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1833. It is native to Australia ( Queensland, New South Wales, Lord Howe I., Norfolk Island), New Caledonia, and Vanuatu. '' Cocconerion'' is a ...

'' (Small-flowered bloodwood), all found in Australia * ''

Brosimum rubescens ''Brosimum'' is a genus of plants in the family Moraceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas. The breadnut ('' B. alicastrum'') was used by the Maya civilization for its edible nut. The dense vividly colored scarlet wood of '' B. paraens ...

'', a tree found in Central and South America * Many

Myrtaceae Myrtaceae, the myrtle family, is a family of dicotyledonous plants placed within the order Myrtales. Myrtle, pōhutukawa, bay rum tree, clove, guava, acca (feijoa), allspice, and eucalyptus are some notable members of this group. All speci ...

trees in the genus ''

Corymbia ''Corymbia'', commonly known as bloodwoods, is a genus of about one hundred species of tree that, along with ''Eucalyptus'', '' Angophora'' and several smaller groups, are referred to as eucalypts. Until 1990, corymbias were included in the gen ...

'' from Australia, formerly from the genus '' Eucalyptus''; '' Corymbia gummifera'' (Red bloodwood), '' Corymbia intermedia'' (Pink bloodwood), ''

Corymbia ptychocarpa ''Corymbia ptychocarpa'', commonly known as the swamp bloodwood or spring bloodwood, is a species of tree that is endemic to northwestern Australia. It has rough bark on the trunk and branches, broadly lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in ...

'' (Swamp and Spring bloodwood), '' Corymbia opaca'' (Desert bloodwood), ''

Corymbia eximia ''Corymbia eximia'', commonly known as the yellow bloodwood, is a bloodwood native to New South Wales. It occurs around the Sydney Basin often in high rainfall areas on shallow sandstone soils on plateaux or escarpments, in fire prone areas. G ...

'' (Yellow bloodwood) etc. * ''

Casuarina equisetifolia ''Casuarina equisetifolia'', common names ''Coastal She-oak'' or ''Horsetail She-oak'' (sometimes referred to as the Australian pine tree or whistling pine tree outside Australia), is a she-oak species of the genus ''Casuarina''. The native ...

'', found in Southeast Asia, Northern Australia and the Pacific * '' Cyrilla racemiflora'' found in the Neotropics * ''

Gordonia haematoxylon Gordonia may refer to: Biology * ''Gordonia'' (plant), a genus of flowering plants native to Southeast Asia and the Americas * ''Gordonia'' (bacterium), a genus of bacteria * ''Gordonia'' (synapsid), an extinct animal from the Permian Other uses * ...

'', a tree from Jamaica * '' Haematoxylum campechianum'', a tree from Central America and

Caribbean The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Se ...

* '' Lagerstroemia speciosa'' (Indian bloodwood) * Several trees from the genus '' Pterocarpus'' from Africa and Asia, the trees yields a red

exsudate An exudate is a fluid emitted by an organism through pores or a wound, a process known as exuding or exudation. ''Exudate'' is derived from ''exude'' 'to ooze' from Latin ''exsūdāre'' 'to (ooze out) sweat' (''ex-'' 'out' and ''sūdāre'' 'to ...

which soon harden into crimson tears ( Kino, Dragon's blood); '' Pterocarpus angolensis'', '' Pterocarpus erinaceus'', ''

Pterocarpus rotundifolius ''Pterocarpus rotundifolius'', the round-leaved bloodwood, is a species of Fabaceae, fabaceous tree that is native to mesic and well-watered woodlands of Africa south of the equator. Subspecies Up to three subspecies are recognized, but specimen ...

'', '' Pterocarpus indicus'', ''

Pterocarpus officinalis ''Pterocarpus officinalis'', the dragonsblood tree, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to southern Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and northern South America. It is typically found in coastal freshwater or slig ...

'' (Dragon's blood), etc. The ''Pterocarpus'' wood is traded under different names but normally not as bloodwood. * ''

Vachellia haematoxylon ''Vachellia haematoxylon'' (gray camel thorn, giraffe thorn, af, Vaalkameeldoring, st, Mokholo) is a protected tree in South Africa. See also *List of Southern African indigenous trees References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q9565151 Vachellia, ha ...

'' (Syn.: ''Acacia haematoxylon'') Bloodwood-Acacia, southern Africa

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* {{Plant common name Wood