Bishop MuseumExplore

Swietenia mahagoni

American Mahogany

Introduced to HawaiʻiIUCN: near threatenednear threatened

Photo: (c) Erika Mitchell, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Erika Mitchell (iNaturalist)

41

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1905

First collected

2025

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Swietenia mahagoni, most mentions first.

  1. 2019

    Hawaiian naturalized vascular plants checklist (February 2019 update)

    Imada, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  2. 2025

Search the Library for “Swietenia mahagoni” →

Where Bishop collected it

10 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1900s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1905 by Hosmer, Mrs. (unknown).

From the collection

Swietenia mahagoni, 15749Swietenia mahagoni, 58203Swietenia mahagoni, 761794Swietenia mahagoni, 802473Swietenia mahagoni, 58201Swietenia mahagoni, 593401Swietenia mahagoni, 58202Swietenia mahagoni, 160457Swietenia mahagoni, 443698Swietenia mahagoni, 446516Swietenia mahagoni, 58200Swietenia mahagoni, 58197

Alive today

14 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild in Hawaiʻi since 2000. Most recent first.