Blooming Friday
is hosted by Katarina of Roses and Stuff in Sweden.
http://rosorochris.blogspot.com/
The theme of this week is "Big and Small".
My entry shows the top of a very large Mahagony tree
with fruits and very small flowers.
Hope you'll like my entry.
Swietenia is a genus of trees in the chinaberry family, Meliaceae. It occurs natively in the Neotropics, from southern Florida, the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America south to Bolivia. The genus is named for Dutch-Austrian physician Gerard van Swieten (1700-1772).
The genus was introduced into several Asian countries as a replacement source of mahogany timber around the time it was restricted in its native locations in the late 1990s. Trade in Asian grown plantation mahogany is not restricted. Fiji and India are the largest exporters of plantation mahogany and wild mahogany remains commercially unavailable to this day.
The flowers are produced in loose efflorescences, each flower small, with five white to greenish-yellowish petals. The fruit is a pear-shaped five-valved capsule 8–20 cm long, containing numerous winged seeds about 5–9 cm long.
Photographed during my visit on the Island of Barbados.
Identified March 3, 2011
reference http://www.hear.org
wikipedia and Tropical Plants of the world (Jens G. Rohwer PhD)
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Photographed during my visit on the Island of Barbados.
Identified March 3, 2011
reference http://www.hear.org
wikipedia and Tropical Plants of the world (Jens G. Rohwer PhD)
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Swietenia ist eine Pflanzengattung aus der Familie der Mahagonigewächse (Meliaceae).
und wurde nach dem Arzt Gerard van Swieten (Holland- Österreich) benannt.
Der Baum hat sehr kleine Blüten und die grossen Samenkapseln werden bis zu 8-20cm lang.
Die drei Arten kommen nur in den Tropen vor und liefern wertvolle Handelshölzer.
Die Bestände des wild wachsenden Mahagonibaums sind in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexiko schon um mehr als 80 Prozent dezimiert. Die große Nachfrage vor allem aus den USA, hohe Preise und unzureichende nationale Schutz- und Kontrollgesetze haben zu dem Kahlschlag geführt.
Seit 2002 steht der Mahagonibaum unter Schutz des Artenschutzabkommens Cites (2002)
Fotografiert während meines Urlaubs auf der Insel Barbados.
Identifiziert 3. März 2011
Referenz http://www.hear.org/
Wikipedia und Tropical Plants of the Whorld (Jens G.RohwerPhD)
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