Beefwood is the name given to a number of

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s which have

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with a red colouration resembling raw

beef Beef is the culinary name for meat from cattle (''Bos taurus''). Beef can be prepared in various ways; Cut of beef, cuts are often used for steak, which can be cooked to varying degrees of doneness, while trimmings are often Ground beef, grou ...

as follows: *''

Barringtonia calyptrata ''Barringtonia calyptrata'' is a species of mangrove belonging to the family Lecythidaceae. It is native to New Guinea and to northern Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in ...

'', also known as Cornbeefwood. *''

Barringtonia racemosa ''Barringtonia racemosa'', commonly known as powder-puff tree, is a species of tree in the family Lecythidaceae. It is found in coastal swamp forests and on the edges of estuaries in the Indian Ocean, starting at the east coast of Mozambique and ...

'', also known as Cornbeefwood. *''

Bischofia javanica ''Bischofia javanica'', or bishop wood, is a plant species of the family Phyllanthaceae. It and the related '' Bischofia polycarpa'' are the only two members of genus '' Bischofia'' and tribe Bischofieae. These species are distributed throughout ...

'' *'' Floydia praealta'' (Syn.: ''Macadamia praealta'') *''

Grevillea glauca ''Grevillea glauca'', commonly known as bushman's clothes peg, cobblers peg tree, beefwood tree, nut wood, nalgo, or kawoj in New Guinea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is native to Papua New Guinea and north-easter ...

'', also known as Beefwood tree. *'' Grevillea parallela'', also known as Narrow-leaved Beefwood. *'' Grevillea striata'', also known as Western Beefwood. *'' Orites excelsa'', also known as White Beefwood. *''

Stenocarpus salignus ''Stenocarpus salignus'', known as the scrub beefwood is an Australian rainforest tree in the family Proteaceae. Found in warmer rainforests on the coast and ranges. It is often found in warm temperate rainforest on poorer sedimentary soils, or ...

'' also known as Killarney Beefwood or Scrub Beefwood. *''

Stenocarpus sinuatus ''Stenocarpus sinuatus'', known as the firewheel tree, is an Australian rainforest tree in the family Proteaceae. The range of natural distribution is in various rainforest types from the Nambucca River (30° S) in New South Wales to the Athe ...

'' also known as White Beefwood. Some

Casuarinaceae The Casuarinaceae are a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants placed in the order Fagales, consisting of four genera and 91 species of trees and shrubs native to eastern Africa, Australia, Southeast Asia, Malesia, Papuasia, and the Pacific ...

species are also referred to as Beefwoods, ''

Casuarina equisetifolia ''Casuarina equisetifolia'', commonly known as coastal she-oak, horsetail she-oak, ironwood, beach sheoak, beach casuarina, whistling tree or Australian pine is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is native to Australia, ...

'', ''

Casuarina cunninghamiana ''Casuarina cunninghamiana'', commonly known as river oak, river sheoak or creek oak, is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is native to Australia and New Guinea. It is a tree with fissured and scaly bark, sometimes dr ...

'', ''

Allocasuarina verticillata ''Allocasuarina verticillata'', commonly known as drooping sheoak, is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a small dioecious tree that has drooping branchlets up to long, the l ...

'', ''

Allocasuarina distyla ''Allocasuarina distyla'', commonly known as scrub she-oak, is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to south-eastern New South Wales. It is a dioecious shrub that has branchlets up to long, the leaves reduced t ...

'' (Syn.: ''Casuarina stricta'') etc. Furthers: * also ''

Manilkara bidentata ''Manilkara bidentata'' is a species of '' Manilkara'' native to a large area of northern South America, Central America and the Caribbean. Common names include bulletwood, balatá, ausubo, massaranduba, quinilla, and (ambiguously) " cow-tree". ...

'' and ''

Manilkara ''Manilkara'' is a genus of trees in the family Sapotaceae. They are widespread in tropical and semitropical locations, in Africa, Madagascar, Asia, Australia, and Latin America, as well as various islands in the Pacific and in the Cari ...

'' spp. from South and Central America and the Caribbean * and '' Swartzia panacoco'' (Syn.: ''Robinia panacoco''), '' Swartzia tomentosa'', ''

Rhizophora mangle ''Rhizophora mangle'', also known as the red mangrove, is a salt-tolerant, small-to-medium sized evergreen tree restricted to coastal, estuarine ecosystems along the southern portions of North America, the Caribbean as well as Central America ...

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

Ardisia escallonioides ''Ardisia escallonioides'', the Island marlberry, is a plant species native to the West Indies and neighboring areas. It has been reported from Barbados, Bermuda, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Florida. ''Ardisia es ...

'' *'' Guapira fragrans'', '' Guapira obtusata'', ''

Guapira discolor ''Guapira'' is a genus of Neotropical shrubs in four o'clock family.Myrsine coriacea'' (Syn.: ''Ardisia coriacea'') *''

Roupala montana ''Roupala montana'' is a species of shrub or tree in the family Proteaceae which is native to much of the Neotropics. It is a plant morphology, morphologically variable species with four recognised varieties. The species is used medicinally in V ...

'', from Middle America to North South America *''

Schoepfia ''Schoepfia'' is a genus of small hemiparasitic trees, flowering plants belonging to the family Schoepfiaceae. The genus has long been placed in the Olacaceae family. Description Plants in this genus are small trees or shrubs which exhibit het ...

'' spp, '' Schoepfia obovata'' White Beefwood, '' Schoepfia schreberi'' Island Beefwood *''

Zygia latifolia ''Zygia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 60 species of tres and shrubs native to the tropical Americas, from Southern Mexico and Cuba to northern Argentina. Typical habitats are tropical forest and coastal zone ...

'', ''

Clausena anisata :''Should not be confused with syzygium anisatum, a tree native to eastern Australian rainforests, used as a culinary herb.'' ''Clausena anisata'' ( Willd.) Hook.f. ex Benth. is a deciduous shrub or small tree, belonging to the Rutaceae or Cit ...

'', as Horsewood

References

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