Brazilwood Plant 322 in the 400 week countdown by Plants400 University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum
Once widespread, brazilwood is now rare in the wild through overharvesting, although it is widely planted as an ornamental. Overexploitation of brazilwood appears to have been partially responsible for collapse of its trade in the eighteenth century. Logwood, found in southern parts of Central America and the West Indies, was discovered in the late 17th…