Meaning : Very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree. Used in preparing a purplish red dye.
Meaning : Spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye.
Synonyms : bloodwood tree, campeachy, haematoxylum campechianum, logwood tree