Cedrela odorata

Also known as cigar-box wood, Spanish cedar, Cuban cedar, cedro, cigar-box cedar

species of plant

In the Vinony graph

Vinony catalogs Cedrela odorata in its Vulnerable Species collection (16,386 entries).

Within Vinony's link graph, Cedrela odorata is referenced by 123 other articles, and connects out to Spanish, plant and insect.

Vinony files it under Botanical taxa named by Carl Linnaeus, Cedrela and Flora of the Atlantic Forest.

Its subject is documented across 28 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

Vulnerable

SPECIES

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassMagnoliopsida
OrderSapindales
FamilyMeliaceae

Native toArgentina Northeast, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba

Observations recorded20,417

Common Name: cedro

via GBIF · IUCN · Kew POWO

Museum specimens

Specimen records: 3,285
With media: 1,118
Family: Meliaceae
Collections: CECOY-INIFAP, ECOSUR, FESI-UNAM, FA-UAS, CICY, ENCB-IPN
Recorded in: Mexico

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: taxon
Subclass of: useful plant
Parent taxon: Cedrela
Image: Cedrela odorata foliage.jpg

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taxon rank: species
IUCN conservation status: Vulnerable
taxon name: Cedrela odorata
Commons category: Cedrela odorata
GRIN URL: npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=9685
Commons gallery: Cedrela odorata
taxon common name: السِّدرال
taxon range: Cuba
invasive to: Ghana
short name: C. odorata
external data available at URL: www.gbif.org/dataset/d51a552b-0d2c-4788-a5c9-824b552abbf1

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Encyclopedic overview

Cedrela odorata, commonly known as Spanish cedar, Cuban cedar, or cedro in Spanish, is a commercially important species of tree in the chinaberry family, Meliaceae native to the Neotropics.

Classification

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cedrela odorata” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.