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Logwood
Haematoxylum campechianum
Logwood is a thorny nitrogen-fixing legume tree once logged intensively for the dark red-to-black dye extracted from its heartwood - historically one of the most valuable dye woods traded from the American tropics. It wants full sun and tolerates both seasonally flooded ground and dry limestone hillsides once established; it succeeds in most soils. Left to grow it can reach around 15 m though it is usually smaller and often multi-stemmed and gnarled; it also produces a valued honey crop and has minor traditional medicinal use as an astringent.
Record at a glance
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun
- USDA zone
- USDA 10–11
- Soil
- Sand · Silt · Loam · Clay
- Moisture
- Dry · Wet
Vertical layer
Sub-Canopy- Soil pH
- 5.5–8.5
- Plant type
- Evergreen Tree
- Mature height
- 11.8–49.2 ft
- Mature spread
- Not yet recorded
- Plant spacing
- 15 ft
- Root type
- Not yet recorded
- Spread pattern
- Seed
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