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Swietenia
Swietenia
is a genus of trees in the
chinaberry
family,
Meliaceae
. It occurs natively in the
Neotropics
, from southern
Florida
, the
Caribbean
,
Mexico
and
Central America
south to
Bolivia
. The genus is named for Dutch-Austrian physician
Gerard van Swieten
(1700-1772). The
wood
of
Swietenia
trees is known as
mahogany
.
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