Hardwood
West Indian Cedar
Cedrela tonduzii C.DC.
Southern Mexico to Panama
Fun factEthanol extracts of its wood fluoresce, which lets scientists tell it apart from related cedars.
A tall tree of the mahogany family, reaching 12–45 m, with pinnate leaves of 5–9 pairs of lance-shaped leaflets. Small whitish flowers are borne in clusters at the branch tips, followed by brown egg-shaped woody capsules dotted with lenticels. In Costa Rica it grows in very wet montane forest and has been used in riverbank restoration plantings.
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FamilyMeliaceae
Spanish nameCedor Dulce
Also known asCedro dulce (no widely used English name), Cedro dulce, Cedro colorado, Cedro real
Native toSouthern Mexico (Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas) through Central America to Panama