Beefwood

Beefwood is the name given to a number of Australian trees which have timber with a red colouration resembling raw beef as follows:

• Barringtonia calyptrata, also known as Cornbeefwood.
• Barringtonia racemosa, also known as Cornbeefwood.
• Bischofia javanica^[1]
• Floydia praealta (Syn.: Macadamia praealta)
• Grevillea glauca, also known as Beefwood tree.^[2]
• Grevillea parallela, also known as Narrow-leaved Beefwood.^[1]
• Grevillea striata, also known as Western Beefwood.^[1]
• Orites excelsa, also known as White Beefwood.^[1]
• Stenocarpus salignus also known as Killarney Beefwood or Scrub Beefwood.^[1]
• Stenocarpus sinuatus also known as White Beefwood.^[1]

Some Casuarinaceae species are also referred to as Beefwoods, Casuarina equisetifolia, Casuarina cunninghamiana, Allocasuarina verticillata, Allocasuarina distyla (Syn.: Casuarina stricta) etc.

Furthers:

• also Manilkara bidentata and Manilkara spp. from South and Central America and the Caribbean
• and Swartzia panacoco (Syn.: Robinia panacoco), Swartzia tomentosa, Rhizophora mangle

In German also the term „Pferdefleischholz“; Horseflesh wood or „Bulletrie-, Bolletrieholz“ is given to these woods

Others are:

• Ardisia escallonioides
• Guapira fragrans, Guapira obtusata, Guapira discolor
• Myrsine coriacea (Syn.: Ardisia coriacea)
• Roupala montana, from Middle America to North South America
• Schoepfia spp, Schoepfia obovata White Beefwood, Schoepfia schreberi Island Beefwood
• Zygia latifolia, Clausena anisata, as Horsewood

See also

• Sabicu wood or Hieronyma alchorneoides, Caesalpinia spp., Horseflesh Mahogany