Beefwood

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title: "Beefwood" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["flora-of-australia", "grevillea-taxa-by-common-name"] topic_path: "geography/australia" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beefwood" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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
• Floydia praealta (Syn.: Macadamia praealta)
• Grevillea glauca, 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 also known as Killarney Beefwood or Scrub Beefwood.
• Stenocarpus sinuatus also known as White Beefwood.

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

References

References

1. "Australian plant common name database". [[Australian National Botanic Gardens]].
2. Philip A. Clarke. (2012). "Australian plants as Aboriginal Tools". Rosenberg Publishing.

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