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What kind of tree is rosewood?

Red sandalwood is a Pterocarya of Leguminosae, also known as Qinglong wood, Huangbai wood, Rose wood, Hualv wood and Feather Ye Tan.

Mahogany is produced in China, Taiwan Province, Guangdong and Yunnan (South). Born in sparse forests on hillsides, or cultivated in gardens. India, Philippines, Indonesia and Myanmar are also distributed. Wood is hard and dense with red heartwood, which is an excellent material for architecture, musical instruments and furniture. Resin and wood are used in medicine.

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Appearance characteristics: pedicels have obvious joints; Calyx is obconical, slightly curved, calyx teeth are short, and the upper two are nearly connate; Corolla extends out of calyx, petals have long stalks, flag petals are round and fold on the same side as keel petals; Stamens 10 haploid, sometimes 5+5 diploid, or sometimes 1 free flag petal, 9- 1 diploid, anther type.

Ovary stipitate or sessile; Ovules 2-6, style filiform, curved, glabrous, stigma small, terminal. Pods are round and flat, with wide and hard wings at the edge, and the persistent style bends down to the neck, usually with 1 seed; Seeds oblong or subreniform, with small umbilicus.

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