African mahogany
ആഫ്രിക്കൻ മഹാഗണി
Khaya senegalensis (Desr.) A.Juss.
- light
- —
- water
- Little
- tall
- 25 m
- wide
- 20 m
Meliaceae
Also called African Mahogany, Benin Mahogany, Senegal Mahogany, Dry Zone Mahogany, Senegal mahogany
Formerly Swietenia senegalensis
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- W. Trop. Africa to N. UgandaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 25 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Spread
- 20 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: light, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 非洲桃花心木, 非洲楝, 塞内加爾楝
- French
- Khaya du Sénégal, Acajou du sénégal, Bois de Mahagoni
- Czech
- khaja senegalská
- Chinese (China)
- 非洲楝
- Spanish
- Caobo africano
- root
- Senegal mahogany
- Danish
- gambiamahogni
- Russian
- Хайя сенегальская
- Polish
- mahoń senegalski
- Finnish
- senegalinkaijamahonki
- Slovak
- kaja senegalská
- Simplified Chinese
- 仙加树, 非洲楝
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Khaya senegalensis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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