Noun: Haematoxylum campechianum
- 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
"Haematoxylum campechianum extract was historically important in textile dyeing";
- logwood, logwood tree, campeachy, bloodwood tree
Type of: blackwood, blackwood tree
Part of: genus Haematoxylon, genus Haematoxylum, Haematoxylon, Haematoxylum
Encyclopedia: Haematoxylum campechianum