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Acacia melanoxylon, lightwood
tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber
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Haematoxylum campechianum, bloodwood tree, campeachy, logwood, logwood tree
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
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Avicennia marina, black mangrove
a mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast; occurs in dense thickets and has numerous short roots that bend up from the ground