Project Meliaceae
Species: Toona ciliata
This web site is a continually evolving and ongoing project. Its
purpose is to improve communication among all groups and individuals
that are involved with these species. We need your help! If you have a
link, information to share, or are interested in authoring a section of
the site, please send email to: mftf@mahoganyforthefuture.org
Information on Toona ciliata
Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?36753
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?411841
Links verified 30 July 2004
Sequence data for Toona ciliata (Toona australis)
National Biotech Info Center
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=67918&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock
Link verified 30 July 2004
Controlling the shoot borer, Hypsipyla robusta
http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/qfri/10780.html
This project of the The Queensland Forestry Research Institute on red
cedar (Toona ciliata). Examines a range of genetic material and
silvicultural techniques that may prove useful I
resistance/control Trials have been established in Australia and
collaborating nations in South East
Asia.
Link dead 30 July 2004
Toona ciliata
http://www.anu.edu.au/BoZo/Saul/Toona.html
Link verified 30 July 2004
Coordinated effort to beat the cedar tip moth
Research updates from CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products
Onwood 29 - Winter 2000
“A major project involving researchers in Australia and Southeast Asia
is investigating ways to stop the main pest of red cedar, the cedar tip
moth, preventing establishment of plantations of this highly valued
tree.” http://www.ffp.csiro.au/publicat/onwood/onwood29/onwood29stripped.html#Heading5
Link dead 30 July 2004
Bringing back red cedar
Research updates from CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products
Onwood 25 - Winter 1999
Researchers collecting seed from remnant red cedar (Toona ciliata)
stands from Cape York to southern New South Wales hope the species will
eventually be grown in plantations in Australia.
http://www.ffp.csiro.au/publicat/onwood/onwood25/#Heading2
Link dead 30 July 2004
Illustration of leaves, flowers, and fruit of Toona ciliata
(Cedrela toona)
Dietrich Brandis. 1874 Illustrations of the Forest Flora of North-West
and Central India
http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/brandis/tafel_14_m.jpg
Link verified 30 July 2004
Lista de especimenes de Toona ciliata en Costa Rica
Manual de la Flora de Costa Rica
Copyright © Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad y Missouri
Botanical Garden, 1995
http://www.mobot.org/manual.plantas/025120/S025313.html
Link verified 30 July 2004
Photographs of flowers and open fruits of Toona ciliata
Dr. Gerald (Gerry) Carr
University of Hawaii at Manoa
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/meli.htm
Link verified 30 July 2004
Photographs of flower and dry open capsule of Toona ciliata
dmoz open directory project
http://dmoz.org/Science/Biology/Flora_and_Fauna/Plantae/Magnoliophyta/Magnoliopsida/Meliaceae/Toona/
Link verified 30 July 2004
Photograph of tree of Toona ciliata (Cedrela toona)
dmoz open directory project
http://dmoz.org/Science/Biology/Flora_and_Fauna/Plantae/Magnoliophyta/Magnoliopsida/Meliaceae/Cedrela/
Link verified 30 July 2004
Type specimen of Toona ciliata (Cedrela toona)
Nomenclature Database
Tropicos
Missouri Botanical Garden
http://mobot.mobot.org/cgi-bin/search_vast?onda=N20400469
Link verified 30 July 2004