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Toona ciliata
Also called Australian Redcedar, Red Cedar, Australian Red Cedar, Australian Cedar, Chinese Mahogany, Toontree, Toon
Toona ciliata is a large deciduous forest tree in the mahogany family, native from South Asia to Papua New Guinea and eastern Australia, and it can reach about 60 m. It is grown mainly for its prized red timber rather than as a garden plant.
Toona ciliata is a forest tree in the mahogany family which grows throughout South Asia from Pakistan to Papua New Guinea and Australia.
It is native to the following regions as defined in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions:
The timber is red in colour, easy to work and very highly valued. It was used extensively for furniture, wood panelling and construction, including shipbuilding, and was referred to as "red gold" by Australian settlers. Heavily and unsustainably exploited in the 19th and early 20th centuries, almost all the large trees have been cut out and the species is essentially commercially extinct. Availability of this timber is now limited. Timber is currently also harvested in New Guinea. Although it is not generally a viable plantation species, trees are regularly harvested by Forestry in the Atherton region of Queensland.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Toona ciliata 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.
