West Indian Mahogany
ಸ್ವೀಟೆನಿಯಾ ಮಹಾಗೋನಿചെറിയ മഹാഗണി
Swietenia mahagoni (L.) Jacq.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 29 m
- wide
- 25 m
Meliaceae
Also called Caribbean Mahogany, American Mahogany, Cuban Mahogany, Small-leaved Mahogany, West Indian mahogany
Formerly Cedrela mahagoni, Cedrus mahagoni, Swietenia acutifolia, Swietenia fabrilis
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
- S. Florida to CaribbeanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 28 m to 30 mRead from Plants for a Future and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Plants for a Future 25–25 m; Wikipedia 30–35 m
- Spread
- 25 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)
- Chinese
- 桃花心木
- Spanish
- Caoba de las Antillas, Coabilla, Caoba Espanõla
- French
- Acajou des Antilles, mahogany petites feuilles, Acajou d'Amérique
- Japanese
- マホガニー
- root
- Mahongani, Mahogani ti fèy, Mahòk
- Danish
- ægte mahogni
- Thai
- มะฮอกกานีใบเล็ก
- Chinese (China)
- 桃花心木
- Portuguese
- Mogno-do-Caribe, Mogno-das-Índias-Ocidentais, Mogno-das-Antilhas
- Polish
- mahoniowiec właściwy
- Finnish
- karibianmahonki
- Slovak
- mahagónovník pravý
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 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Swietenia mahagoni (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.