meliaceae
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№ 378TreesSantol: The Cotton-Fruit With a Fuzzy Sweet-Sour Heart
A big shady Southeast Asian tree of the mahogany family whose apple-sized fruit hides a cottony white pulp around the seeds — eaten fresh, candied, and cooked, and sucked from the stone like a tropical sweet.
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№ 418TreesSpanish Cedar: The Fragrant Wood of Cigar Boxes
Not a cedar at all but a mahogany relative — an aromatic, insect-repelling, moth-proof tropical wood that lines the world's cigar boxes and humidors, and suffers the same shoot-borer that foils mahogany plantations.
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№ 455TreesToon: The 'Red Cedar' You Can Eat
A mahogany-family tree of two lives — the Australian red cedar, a furniture timber so prized it was logged to scarcity, and the Chinese toon, whose fragrant young shoots are a beloved spring vegetable.
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