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Dalbergia nigra
Also called Bahia Rosewood, Rio Rosewood, Rosewood
Brazilian rosewood is a large tropical hardwood tree from Brazil's Atlantic Forest, prized for its wood used in musical instruments. It is rarely grown as a plant outside its native range and needs warm, humid, wet forest-like conditions to thrive.
Dalbergia nigra, commonly known as the Bahia rosewood, jacarandá-da-Bahia, Brazilian rosewood, Rio rosewood, jacarandá-do-brasil, pianowood, caviúna, graúna, jacarandá-una or obuina is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae.
Dalbergia nigra is endemic to Brazil, and native to the Bahia interior forests ecoregion.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dalbergia nigra 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.
