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Pterocarpus indicus
Also called Amboyna Wood, Burmese Rosewood, Red Sandalwood, Malay Padauk, Andaman Redwood, Papua New Guinea Rosewood, Philippine Mahogany
In Singapore: Weeping Angsana, Weeping Rosewood, Angsana, Sena, Burmese Rosewood, Philippine Mahogany, Andaman Redwood, Red Sandalwood, Padouk, Padauk, Narra, Pokok Sena, 紫檀木, 青龙木, 印度紫檀 (Cultivated in Singapore)
9 NParks heritage trees in Singapore: Found in; Found in Pender Road, within grounds of the Danish Seamen's Mission; Found in; Found in; Found in; Found in Upper Serangoon Road, near Woodleigh Park; Found in Woodlands Road, in front of Woodlands Fire Station; Found in Junction of Canterbury Road and Berkshire Road, on sloping ground, Alexandra Park; Found in Jalan Rumbia, near junction with Oxley Rise
Pterocarpus indicus is a large deciduous tree of the pea family, prized for its fragrant, termite-resistant hardwood and decorative burl (amboyna). It is grown mainly as a shade or timber tree in warm, humid lowland areas rather than as a garden or houseplant.
Pterocarpus indicus (commonly known as Amboyna wood, Malay padauk, Papua New Guinea rosewood, Philippine mahogany, Andaman redwood, Burmese rosewood, narra (from Tagalog) and asana in the Philippines, angsana, or Pashu padauk) is a species of Pterocarpus in the family Fabaceae native to southeastern Asia, northern Australasia, and the western Pacific Ocean islands, in Cambodia, southernmost China, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Ryukyu Islands, the Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Pterocarpus indicus was one of two species (the other being Eysenhardtia polystachya) used as a source for the 16th- to 18th-century traditional diuretic known as lignum nephriticum.
The hardwood, which is purplish, is termite-resistant and rose-scented. The wood known in Indonesia as amboyna is the burl of the tree, named after Ambon, where much of this material was originally found. Often amboyna is finely sliced to produce an extremely decorative veneer, used for decoration and in making of furniture and keys on a marimba.
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[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]
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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.
