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swietenia_mahagoni_l._jacq

Swietenia mahagoni (L.) Jacq. - syn. Cedrela mahagoni L. - Meliaceae
West Indian mahogany, true mahogany, Westindisches Mahagoni

Endangered deciduous or evergreen tree, up to 35m tall, native to the Caribbean and Florida, also cultivated (China, India, Indonesia eg.); bark scalelike, reddish; leaves alternate ca.35cm long, petiolate, leaflets 8-12, thin, glabrous, ovate to lanceolate, 10-16cm long; axillary thyrses; flowers small, petals greenish white, staminal tube subcylindric, glabrous, anthers 10; capsule brown, ovoid, ca.8 cm in diam., many seeded; seeds apically winged, ca. 7cm including wing.
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=220013153

The wood has been used to construct fine furniture for hundreds of years. Properly finished and polished, mahogany has a deep rich red color. Mahogany is used to make musical instruments, especially guitar parts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swietenia_mahagoni

(E)-ocimene
(E)-ocimene
 indole
indole
 2-aminobenzaldehyde
2-aminobenzaldehyde
methyl anthranilate
methyl anthranilate
 β-ionone
β-ionone

safranal

The highly fragrant flowers open shortly after twilight. They fill the air of the surrounding with a delicate scent, reminiscent of orange flowers slightly modified in direction of Magnolia champaca. Main components of the scent are (E)-ocimene (64.5%) and (Z)-ocimene (16.5%), forming an orange flower accord with indole (0.2%), 2-aminobenzaldehyde (0.3%), and methyl anthranilate (0.6%), twisted in champaca direction with β-ionone (0.02%), β-cyclocitral (0.2%), and safranal (0.03%).
[Scent of a vanishing flora, Roman Kaiser, 2011, 61-62 and 419]

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Swietania mahagoni flowers, Manasa Gangothiri, Mysuru, Karnataka, India (2016) © shivaprakash CC BY-SA 4.0 inaturalist.org

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Sargent,C.S., The Silva of North America, vol.1 t.43 (1891) [C.E.Faxon] plantgenera.org

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