Cedrela toona is a soft wood tree. I wonder why is it called Indian Mahogany. 
Mahogany is known to be a hard wooded.

Promila
 


Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:24:30 +0530
Subject: Re: [indiantreepix:24886] Re: ¿ neem-like fruits ?
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Toona cilaita (synonym Cedrela toona more popular) ... commonly known as: 
Australian red cedar, bastard cedar, Burma cedar, Indian cedar, Indian 
mahogany, moulmein cedar, red cedar, toon • Assamese: পমা pama • Bengali: তূণ 
tun • Hindi: नन्दी nandi, नन्दिक nandik, तुन tun, तुन्न tunna • Kannada: 
ಬೆಳಮ್ದಿ belamdi • Kashmiri: द्रब् drab, द्रावी drawi, तूनी tuni • Malayalam: 
ചന്ദന വേമ്പ് candana veemp, ചുവന്ന അകില്‍ cuvanna akil, മദഗിരിവേമ്പ് 
madagiriveemp, പടുകരണ patukarana • Manipuri: তাইৰেল tairel • Marathi: नांदुरकी 
nandurki, तुन्न tunna • Mizo: teipui • Nepalese: तूनी tunee, तुनि tuni • Oriya: 
teipui, mahalimbo • Pali: कच्छक kacchaka • Punjabi: ਚਿੱਟੀ ਸਿਰੀਂਹ chitti sirinh, 
ਚਿੱਟੀ ਸਰੀਂਹ chitti sarinh, ਦੱਲੀ dalli, ਦਰਲ daral, ਦੋਰੀ dori, ਤੁਣ tun • 
Sanskrit: कच्छपः kacchapah, नन्दी nandi, नन्दिकः nandikah, तुन्न tunna • Tamil: 
ஆயில் ayil, மலயப்பூத்துன்னமரம் malaya-p-pu-t-tunna-maram, மதகரிவேம்பு 
matakari-vempu, தூணாமரம் tuna-maram • Telugu: నందివృక్షము nandivrikshamu • 
Urdu: نندي nandi, نندك nandik, تون tun, تن tunna
 
 
Regards.
 


 
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:29 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote:


Some extracts from Wikipedia link (for pictures & more details, click on the 
link): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toona_ciliata
Australian Red Cedar (called also Toon, Suren or Indian Mahogany), Toona 
ciliata [1] is a forest tree in the family Meliaceae which grows throughout 
southern Asia from Afganistan to Papua New Guinea and Australia.[2] In 
Australia its natural habitat is now extensively cleared subtropical 
rainforests of New South Wales and Queensland. The Australian population was 
formerly treated as distinct species under the name T. australis. The species 
can grow to around 60m in height and its trunk can reach 3m in girth.

It is one of Australia's few native deciduous trees. The timber is red in 
colour, easy to work and very highly valued. It was used extensively for 
furniture, wood panelling and construction, including shipbuilding, and was 
referred to as "Red Gold" by Australian settlers[5]. Heavily and unsustainably 
exploited in the 19th Century and early 20th Century, almost all the large 
trees have been cut out and the species is essentially commercially extinct.[6] 
However, the timber is relatively fast growing and following on from a wave of 
tree cutting in the 1950s, regrowth and timber from forestry sources currently 
provides trees up to 1 metre in diameter for the furniture trade in Australia 
and timber is not difficult to source.

The Red cedar is widely planted in subtropical and tropical parts of the world 
as a shade tree and for its fast-growing aspect.
 
2009/4/28 Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> 





Many thanks, grassman.
Regards.



 
 


 
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:34 AM, grassman <[email protected]> wrote:


dear  it could be toona ciliata



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