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Mature mahogany trees in Fort Myers Florida. Photo: Stephen H. Brown, UF/IFAS. Mahogany ( Swietenia mahagoni ) casts a light, dappled shade on the ground below, making it a great shade tree for landscapes with enough room for it to thrive.
West Indian Mahogany, Swietenia mahagoni, is among the most common Florida native trees used in landscaping, and for good reason. It provides plenty of shade, requires little in the way of care and, most importantly in Hurricane Alley, it is wind-resistant.
Mahogany is the national tree of Dominican Republic and Belize. It also appears on the national seal of Belize. The seeds or fruit of the Swietenia Mahogany (Swietenia Macrophyllae) tree is commonly called "SKY FRUIT" or bitter fruit. It is called "sky fruit because the fruit points up to the sky.
A native of South Florida, the mahogany tree grows a naturally beautiful canopy of small pretty leaves that create dappled shade. Enough sunlight peeks through the tree's foliage to allow grass to grow beneath it.
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West Indian Mahogany, American Mahogany, Cuban Mahogany, Small-Leaved Mahogany. One of south Florida’s most popular street or yard trees, Swietenia mahagoni (West Indian Mahogany) is a large, semi-evergreen tree, with a dense, rounded canopy of compound deep green leaves with 4-8 leaflets.
Commonly planted and naturalized, in Florida this species is primarily native only to the northern Keys and southern hammocks of the Everglades (Little 1978; Morton 1987). Elsewhere it is thought to be native to the Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, and Jamaica (Pennington et al. 1981).
