Indian rosewood
ಸೀಸಂशीशमசிசே மரம்
Dalbergia sissoo Roxb. ex DC.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 16 m
- wide
- 11 m
Fabaceae
Formerly Amerimnon sissoo, Dalbergia pendula, Endespermum diversifolium, Pterocarpus sissoo
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. Arabian Pen. to MyanmarKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 14 m to 18 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Spread
- 9.1 m to 12 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: UF/IFAS white, yellow; Wikipedia pink, white
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- Chinese
- 降香, 印度黃檀, 印度黄檀
- Simplified Chinese
- 印度檀, 印度黄檀, 茶檀
- Hindi
- शीशम
- Tamil
- சிசே மரம்
- Telugu
- సిసూ, ఇరిడి
- Kannada
- ಸೀಸಂ
- Marathi
- शिसव
- Bangla
- শিশু গাছ
- Malayalam
- ശിംശപാ, ശിംശപ
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Dalbergia sissoo (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.