Blackwood Explained

Blackwood may refer to:

Botany

• African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), a timber tree of Africa
• African blackwood (Erythrophleum africanum), (Peltophorum africanum) also Rhodesian blackwood, trees from Africa
• Australian blackwood (Senegalia modesta Syn.: Acacia modesta), a tree from India, Pakistan, Nepal and Himalaya
• Australian blackwood (Diospyros longibracteata), from Laos
• Australian or Tasmanian, Paluma blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), a tree of eastern Australia
• Bombay, Malabar, Nilghiri or (East) Indian blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), a timber tree of India
• Burmese Blackwood (Dalbergia cultrata, Dalbergia oliveri), trees from South China, Southeast Asia
• Cape blackwood (Diospyros whyteana), Southern East and South Africa, (Maytenus peduncularis), from South Africa
• Chinese blackwood, East African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), from Africa, India
• Indian blackwood (Hardwickia binata), from India
• Malabar blackwood (Dalbergia sissoides), from India, Indonesia
• Acacia argyrodendron, a tree from Australia
• Acacia penninervis, a small tree or shrub of Australia
• Avicennia germinans, from Middle America to Northern South America, South United States, Africa
• Diospyros melanoxylon, from India
• Haematoxylum campechianum, from Central America

Entertainment

• Blackwood's Magazine, a British periodical printed between 1817 and 1980
• Blackwood (1976 film), a 1976 Canadian documentary film
• Blackwood (2013 film)
• Blackwoods (film), a 2002 psychological thriller film
• Blackwood convention, a bidding agreement in contract bridge
• The Blackwood Brothers, a southern gospel music quartet
• The Ghost of Blackwood Hall, one of the Nancy Drew series

Places

United States

• Blackwood, Georgia
• Blackwood, New Jersey
• Blackwood, North Carolina
• Blackwood, Virginia

United Kingdom

• Blackwood, Caerphilly, Wales
• Blackwood, Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, Scotland
• Blackwood, South Lanarkshire, Scotland

Australia

• Blackwood, South Australia, suburb of Adelaide, Australia
• Blackwood, Victoria, Australia

Other

• Blackwood (surname), a Scottish surname
• Blackwood (publishing house)
• Blackwood (whisky distillery)
• Blackwood National Park, in Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia
• Blackwood River, in Western Australia
• Blackwood-class frigate, named after Captain Henry Blackwood
• HMS Blackwood, named after Captain Henry Blackwood
• Lincoln Blackwood, an American luxury pickup truck manufactured by Lincoln

See also

• Black wood of grapevine, a bacterial disease