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ACCESSION NO: KFRIw 7
- Scientific Name: Toona ciliata M.Roem.
- Synonym: Cedrela toona Roxb. ex Rottler & Willd.
- Family: Meliaceae
- Trade Name: Spanish cedar, Australian red cedar
- Common Name: Toon, Toona, Red cedar, Burma cedar, Moulmein cedar, Queensland red cedar, Indian mahogany
- പൊതുവായ പേരുകള്: ഇന്ത്യൻ മഹാഗണി
- Native: South China to Tropical Asia
- Specimen from: Chandanathod, Sholayar
- State & Region: Kerala, India
- Date of Collection: Wednesday, February 22, 1978
- Collected by: K. M. Bhat & K. V. Bhat
- General Characteristics: Semi-deciduous trees, to 30 m high, bark 10-15 mm thick, reddish-brown. Leaves paripinnate, flowers bisexual, fruit a capsule.
- Wood Anatomy: Growth rings are distinct. Vessels Semi-ring-porous to ring-porous. Large in the early wood, the transition from early wood to late wood is gradual, small and moderately few in latewood, solitary or in radial multiples of 2 or 3; occasionally filled with dark brown gummy deposits. Rays moderately broad to fine, rather few, fairly wide spaced.
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- Other Accessions of Toona ciliata M.Roem.