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Mahogany
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
Mahogany
Contributors:
By (Author) Linda White
Publisher:
Royal Botanic Gardens
Imprint:
Kew Publishing
Publication Date:
4th April 2008
Country:
United Kingdom
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
583.77
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
100
Dimensions:
Width 210mm, Height 276mm
Weight:
760g
Description
Mahogany is a detailed identification guide to the woods of several trade timbers known as `mahogany', and aims to differentiate between these and the true mahogany Swietenia. All three species of Swietenia are CITES listed, and difficult to tell apart from other `mahogany' timbers. In this book, 18 taxa from the Meliaceae family (the mahogany family), commonly known as mahoganies, are compared and contrasted, with full wood anatomical descriptions and microscopic images, macroscopic wood images, global distribution maps, information on uses and common names.
