the Botanical name - Swietenia candollei.
The German name - Echtes Mahagoni, English - American mahogany, Italian -
Mogano.
Mahogoni (sviteniya) - an evergreen tree of family melievyh. The height to 15 m. Wildly grows in West Indies.
Wood firm, very strong, heavy, a beautiful structure, with narrow serovato-white zabolon'yu and a red-brown kernel - is known under the name present or central-American mahagoni, a common cashew. Colour of wood varies in due course - fiery, yellow-red colour turns in beautiful chestnut, bright red - in dark-brown, faintly red (the lowest grade) remains, on the contrary, invariable or even brightens. Under the name mahagoni wood of many other things of tropical trees of family melievyh (other kinds of this sort, and also sorts Khaya, Dysoxylum, Carapa) and some trees of other families is known also. The name «true mahagoni» is fair only for the versions growing in Central America. Close wood on properties from Africa has other names, in particular, zipo and gabon.
Wood strong, is very well polished, is steady enough against external influences, goes mainly on art products (the furniture, small turning hand-made articles), is applied also in incrustations and in art parquet floors.
Volume weight in an air-dry condition: 620 - 650 kg/cubic metres