The text below is for questions 32
to 34
In the natural rainforest, Mahogany is a very large
canopy tree, sometimes reaching over 150 feet in height, with trunks sometimes
more than 6 feet in diameter above a large basal buttress. It is a generally
open-crowned tree, with gray to brownish-red fissured bark.
Mahogany is perhaps the most valuable timber tree in
the whole of Latin America and