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Astronium graveolens
Glassywood is a large hardwood tree from seasonally dry tropical forests, valued for timber rather than grown as an ornamental. It is not a practical garden or houseplant, and it can reach about 35 m tall.
Astronium graveolens is a species of hardwood tree in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae, that is native to Mexico, Central America, and South America as far south as Bolivia. Common names include glassywood, tigerwood, ronrón (Spanish), aroeira (Portuguese), and gonçalo alves (Portuguese), where it is grouped with two other species of Astronium.
This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Astronium graveolens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
