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Carapa guianensis
In Singapore: Andiroba, Demerara Mahogany, Crabwood (Cultivated in Singapore)
Carapa guianensis is a tall tropical rainforest tree of the Amazon, Central America and the Caribbean, prized for timber and for oil from its seeds. It is a large forest tree rather than a garden or houseplant, so care notes apply mainly to young trees.
Carapa guianensis is a species of tree in the family Meliaceae, also known by the common names andiroba or crabwood.
The timber is used in furniture and flooring. While the wood is not classified as genuine mahogany, it is related to the mahogany family and is similar in appearance.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Carapa guianensis 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.
