Lancewood facts for kids

Lancewood may refer to:

Trees

• Acacia shirleyi, Acacia petraea and Acacia rothii, Australian trees
• Annona dolabripetala, a Brazilian tree in the genus Annona
• Backhousia subargentea, a rare Australian rainforest tree
• Backhousia myrtifolia, Australian lancewood
• Curtisia dentata, Cape lancewood
• Calycophyllum candidissimum, a tropical American tree in the genus Calycophyllum
• Dissiliaria baloghioides, an eastern Australian tree in the genus Dissiliaria
• Harpullia pendula, Tulipwood or Tulip lancewood, a small to medium-sized rainforest tree from Australia
• Harpullia arborea, a tree found in Asia and the Pacific
• Homalium spp., Homalium foetidum, Homalium bhamoense, Homalium tomentosum Moulmein lancewood etc., Burma lancewood
• Manilkara bidentata, Red lancewood
• Mosannona depressa, a tree from Central America in the genus Mosannona
• Nematolepis squamea, an Australian tree
• Olearia lacunosa, a shrub from New Zealand, lancewood tree daisy
• Oxandra spp., Oxandra lanceolata West Indian, Black or True lancewood, Oxandra laurifolia White or Laurelleaf lancewood etc., native to South America and the Caribbean
• Pseudopanax crassifolius Horoeka, a New Zealand tree
• Pseudopanax ferox, a New Zealand tree, Savage or Fierce lancewood and Toothed lancewood
• Xylopia hastarum, a Caribbean tree, White lancewood

Other

• USS Lancewood (AN-48), a 1943 US Navy ship in World War II