Toona, the Glossary
Toona, commonly known as redcedar, toon (also spelled tun) or toona, tooni (in India) is a genus in the mahogany family, Meliaceae, native from Afghanistan south to India, and east to North Korea, Papua New Guinea and eastern Australia.[1]
Table of Contents
33 relations: Afghanistan, Americas, Australia, Beijing, Cedrela, Europe, Francisco Noronha, Furniture, Genus, Georg Eberhard Rumphius, Hardwood, India, Leaf vegetable, Lumber, Malesia, Max Joseph Roemer, Meliaceae, North Korea, Ornamental plant, Otto Kuntze, Papua New Guinea, Papuasia, Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Rudra veena, Shipbuilding, Sitar, Stephan Endlicher, Toona calantas, Toona ciliata, Toona fargesii, Toona sinensis, Toona sureni.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.
Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Beijing
Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.
Cedrela
Cedrela is a genus of several species in the mahogany family, Meliaceae. Toona and Cedrela are Meliaceae genera.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Francisco Noronha
Father Francisco Noronha (also spelled Francisco Noroña) (often incorrectly cited as Fernando do Noronha) (1748, Seville, Spain - January 12, 1788, Mauritius) was a Spanish physician and botanist who resided for some time at Manila, Luzon, Philippines, where he took much effort to organize the Royal Botanic Garden and stock it with valuable plants.
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Furniture
Furniture refers to objects intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., stools, chairs, and sofas), eating (tables), storing items, working, and sleeping (e.g., beds and hammocks).
Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
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Georg Eberhard Rumphius
Georg Eberhard Rumphius (originally: Rumpf; baptized c. 1 November 1627 – 15 June 1702) was a German-born botanist employed by the Dutch East India Company in what is now eastern Indonesia, and is best known for his work Herbarium Amboinense produced in the face of severe personal tragedies, including the death of his wife and a daughter in an earthquake, going blind from glaucoma, loss of his library and manuscripts in major fire, and losing early copies of his book when the ship carrying it was sunk.
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Hardwood
Hardwood is wood from angiosperm trees.
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
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Leaf vegetable
Leaf vegetables, also called leafy greens, pot herbs, vegetable greens, or simply greens, are plant leaves eaten as a vegetable, sometimes accompanied by tender petioles and shoots.
Lumber
Lumber is wood that has been processed into uniform and useful sizes (dimensional lumber), including beams and planks or boards.
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Malesia
Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms, and also a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical Kingdom.
Max Joseph Roemer
Max Joseph Roemer (1791, Munich – 1849) was a German botanist who worked in Weimar.
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Meliaceae
Meliaceae, the mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs (and a few herbaceous plants, mangroves) in the order Sapindales.
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia.
Ornamental plant
Ornamental plants or garden plants are plants that are primarily grown for their beauty but also for qualities such as scent or how they shape physical space.
See Toona and Ornamental plant
Otto Kuntze
Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze (23 June 1843 – 27 January 1907) was a German botanist.
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia).
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Papuasia
Papuasia is a Level 2 botanical region defined in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD).
Plants of the World Online
Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
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Rudra veena
The Rudra veena (रुद्र वीणा) (also spelled Rudraveena or Rudra vīnā)—also called Bīn in North India—is a large plucked string instrument used in Hindustani Music, especially dhrupad.
Shipbuilding
Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.
Sitar
The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music.
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Stephan Endlicher
Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus Endlicher, also known as Endlicher István László (24 June 1804 – 28 March 1849), was an Austrian botanist, numismatist and Sinologist.
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Toona calantas
Toona calantas is a species of tree in the mahogany family.
Toona ciliata
Toona ciliata is a forest tree in the mahogany family which grows throughout South Asia from Afghanistan to Papua New Guinea and Australia.
Toona fargesii
Toona fargesii, or the Chinese common name hong hua xiang chun is a medium-sized deciduous tree native to southern China that grows to a height of tall.
Toona sinensis
Toona sinensis, commonly called Chinese mahogany, Chinese cedar, Chinese toon, beef and onion plant, or red toon (chamjuk; d̩āralū; suren; hương xuân) is a species of Toona native to eastern and southeastern Asia, ranging from northern Korean peninsula through most of eastern, central, and southwestern China, in Nepal, northeastern India, Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, and even present in Malaysia and western Indonesia.
Toona sureni
Toona sureni is a species of tree in the mahogany family.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toona
Also known as Fabrenia, Toon tree, Toon wood, Toona tree, Tun tree, Tun wood, Tuna tree.