Big-leaf Mahogany
மகாகனிമഹാഗണി
Swietenia macrophylla King
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 35 m
- wide
- 35 m
Meliaceae
Also called Honduras Mahogany, Honduras mahogany, Big Leaf Mahogany, Bigleaf Mahogany, Brazilian Mahogany
Formerly Swietenia belizensis, Swietenia candollei, Swietenia krukovii, Swietenia tessmannii
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.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to Bolivia and BrazilKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 35 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Spread
- 35 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- ayacaxcuahuit, Kanak-ché, punab, punab che´, macchochuc-quiui
- Spanish
- Caoba, Mara, Caoba de hoja grande
- Chinese
- 大葉桃花心木, 大叶桃花心木
- French
- Acajou à grandes feuilles, mahogany grandes feuilles, Mahogani Grands Feuilles
- Finnish
- amerikanaitomahonki, Amerikanaitomahonki
- Indonesian
- Mahoni
- Japanese
- オオバマホガニー
- Chinese (China)
- 大叶桃花心木, 向天果
- Portuguese
- Mogno-da-amazônia, Mogno, Aguano
- Thai
- มะฮอกกานีใบใหญ่
- Polish
- mahoniowiec wielkolistny
- Slovak
- mahagónovník veľkolistý
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
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Swietenia macrophylla (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.