Dalbergia is a genus of fine tropical forest trees and climbing shrubs of the family Leguminosae. The group includes the black-wood tree (also called the East Indian rosewood) and the sissoo. Some species of the genus yield excellent timber. Dalbergia latifolia (the black-wood, or East Indian rosewood) is a magnificent tree, furnishing one of the most valuable furniture woods. Dalbergia Sissoo gives a hard durable wood, called sissoo, formerly much employed in India for railway-sleepers, house and ship building, etc. Research Dalbergia
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