Originating from the Neotropics (southern Florida, the Carribean, Mexico and Central America), Mahogany, popularly known as either of the two, Big-leafed mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) and the much smaller leaves as Mahogany (Swietenia mahogani) were introduced as early as 1907, then at Mt. Makiling forestry in 1913. Mahogany was one of the exotic species to be showcased by the government's reforestation projects in different parts of the country such as Ilocos Norte, Cagayan, Cebu, Bohol, Negros and Bukidnon. It is widely distributed throughout the archipelago that seedlings made its way to other places such as national parks and especially private lands.
Mahogany is successful at invading natural forests due to the following attributes of the species. The fruit of mahogany is a capsule and contains an average of 62 winged seeds (Anonymous, 1930). The number of seeds a mahogany mother tree can disperse is considerable. Assuming 50 capsules, 3000 seeds can be blown away from the mother tree. The seeds can be blown some 20 to 40 meters from the mother tree. The seeds, being recalcitrant, germinate in less than a month. Mahogany seeds contain food reserves and germinate hypogeal. This means that even if the initial light is relatively poor, the young mahogany plant develops even without initial photosynthesis. The first young leaves of mahogany are scale leaves and not green. True photosynthetic leaves come later and are adapted to sun-flecked shade and partial shade. Hardened mahogany seedlings can tolerate open fields as long as soil moisture is not limiting. The leaves of mahogany are rarely attacked by herbivores. Thus a mahogany plantation is like a "green desert" to wildlife. Dipterocarps fruit and seed irregularly in intervals of four to five years and therefore stand no chance competing with mahogany.
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