 Mahogany
The name Mahogany is used when referring to numerous varieties of dark-colored wood, "Mahoganies" may refer to the wider group of all the timbers yielded by the three related genera Swietenia, Khaya and Entandrophragma. The species is secure .jpg) in El Salvador and Honduras, but it has become endangered or extinct in some regions of South America. Honduras mahogany trees once had a distribution covering most of South America. Supply of the wood is still plentiful thanks in part to plantation harvesting.
Mahogany has a generally straight grain and is usually free of voids and pockets. It has a reddish-brown color which darkens over time, and displays a beautiful reddish sheen when polished. The texture is rather fine to coarse and can be straight grained to ropey, wavy or curly, ribbon grain, often with an attractive figure.
It has excellent workability, and is very durable and slow to rot. These properties make it a favorable wood for boat making, as tradition has shown, as well as for making furniture and upholstery, musical instruments, and other durable objects.
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