Toona ciliata seeds grow into the Indian mahogany or Australian red cedar a large, fast-growing, deciduous to semi-deciduous tree native to the seasonally dry tropical biome from southern China east through the Indian subcontinent, South-East Asia and the Indonesian archipelago to eastern Australia (Queensland and New South Wales). Named for the fringed (ciliata = fringed) margins of the leaflets, this member of Meliaceae the true mahogany family produces one of the most highly valued reddish-brown hardwoods in Asia and Australia. The Australian red cedar was the most prized timber species in colonial Australia, with forests logged to near extinction by the late 19th century; it is now protected. Young spring leaves emerge in a striking bronze-pink to coppery-red flush. Cream-white fragrant flowers are produced in large drooping panicles. The species is also important in Chinese traditional medicine. Family Meliaceae.
Full sun; fast-growing; adaptable to moist, well-drained tropical and subtropical soils; frost-tender in early years; outstanding timber tree for warm-climate plantations.
Toona ciliata is the great Asian and Australian mahogany the Indian mahogany’s wide distribution from southern China to Queensland, valuable reddish timber, ornamental spring leaf flush and importance in traditional Chinese medicine make it one of the most significant members of the true mahogany family across the tropical and subtropical world.
IMPORTANT: Pictures show the adult plant, which is not for sale. The offer is only for seeds.
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