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Swartzia panacoco

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Kingdom
  
Plantae

Family
  
Fabaceae

Scientific name
  
Swartzia tomentosa

Order
  
Fabales

Genus
  
Swartzia

Rank
  
Species

Similar
  
Swartzia, Eperua, Caryocar glabrum, Eperua falcata

Swartzia panacoco, known as panococo or Brazilian ebony, is a tree of the bean family, growing in Guyana, South America. Its wood is hard and durable. The heartwood ranges from an olive brown to a near black color and can have lighter or darker markings that are sharply separated from the sapwood, which is lighter and yellow in appearance. According to "The Treasury of Botany" published by Longmans, Green, and Co. of London in 1866 for John Lindley, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., an Emeritus Professor of Botany in University College, London, panacoco is also a French name for Ormosia coccinea.

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Swartzia panacoco Wikipedia