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 - logwood, logwood tree, bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum
Type of: blackwood, blackwood tree
Part of: genus Haematoxylon, genus Haematoxylum, Haematoxylon, Haematoxylum