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Dysoxylum Gaudichaudianum
''Dysoxylum gaudichaudianum'', commonly known as ivory mahogany, is a species of rainforest tree in the family Meliaceae, native to Malesia, Queensland, and some southwest Pacific islands. Description The ivory mahogany is a large tree growing up to in height with a straight trunk up to diameter. The bark is smooth and often has teaspoon-sized depressions in it. Buttress roots are a feature of this tree and may reach up to high and wide. The very large leaves are produced in Phyllotaxis#Leaf arrangement , whorls and clustered towards the ends of the branches. They are Pinnation#Number_of_divisions , imparipinnate with up to 14 pairs of leaflets, and measure up to in length. This arrangement produces large spherical clusters of foliage (see gallery). The leaflets are highly asymmetric at the base with one side of the leaf blade wider than the other. They measure up to The inflorescences are thyrses, about long, and produced in or close to the leaf axils. The flowers are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dysoxylum
''Dysoxylum'' is a flowering plant genus of trees and shrubs from the mahogany family, Meliaceae. Botanical science has recorded about eighty species in this genus, growing widely across the regions of Malesia, the western Pacific ocean, Australia and south & southeastern Asia; centred on the tropics between the Pacific and Indian Oceans. They grow naturally in New Guinea, eastern and northern Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji, SE Asia, southern China, the Indian subcontinent, the Philippines, Taiwan, and in the western Pacific Ocean their most easterly occurrences, in the Caroline Islands, New Zealand and Niue. The etymology of its name ''Dysoxylum'' derives from the Greek word ‘''Dys''’ meaning "bad" referring to "ill-smelling" and ‘''Xylon''’ meaning "wood". Distribution New Guinea has records of twenty eight species growing naturally, sixteen of them endemic. New Caledonia has recorded nine, eight of them endemic. Fiji has recorded nine, seven of them endemic. In no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
