Ironwood

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Ironwood may refer to the following:

• Any particular wood that has a reputation for hardness. Usage of the name may (or may not) include the tree that yields this wood. Species involved include:
  • Acacia estrophiolata
  • Androstachys johnsonii – Lebombo ironwood
  • Carpinus caroliniana – also known as American hornbeam
  • Casuarina equisetifolia – Common Ironwood from Australia
  • Chionanthus foveolatus – Pock Ironwood from South Africa
  • Choricarpia subargentea
  • Copaifera spp.
  • Erythrophleum chlorostachys Cooktown ironwood from Australia.
  • Eusideroxylon zwageri
  • Guaiacum officinale and Guaiacum sanctum – also known as Lignum vitae
  • Hopea odorata
  • Krugiodendron ferreum – Black Ironwood
  • Lyonothamnus lyonii (L. floribundus) – Catalina Ironwood
  • Mesua ferrea – also known as Rose Chestnut or Ceylon Ironwood, from Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia
  • Olea spp. – various olive trees
  • Olneya tesota – Desert Ironwood (of Subfamily Faboideae, in Family Fabaceae)
  • Ostrya virginiana – Hop hornbeam
  • Parrotia persica – Persian Ironwood
  • Tabebuia serratifolia – Ipe

• Ironwood (Norse mythology) is the name of a forest in Norse mythology
• Ironwood County, the fictional creation of American author John Schreiber
• Ironwood, Michigan, a city in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan
• Ironwood (comics), erotic comics by Bill Willingham published in the United States by Eros Comicx
• Ironwood High School in Glendale, Arizona
• Ironwood Ridge High School in Tucson, Arizona
• Ironwood Omnimedia Company, A Multimedia Company out of Orlando Florida, designers of the E-RPG System and the Sagas RPG game.

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Ironbark