Rosewood (disambiguation)

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Rosewood may refer to:

[edit] Plants

• Rosewood (timber), a number of richly hued timbers from various trees:
  • Dalbergia nigra (Brazilian Rosewood, Rio Rosewood or Bahia Rosewood)
  • Dalbergia latifolia (Indian Rosewood)
  • Other Dalbergia species
  • Machaerium scleroxylon (Bolivia Morado, a.k.a. Santos "Rosewood", Bolivian "Rosewood", or "striped caviuna")
  • Other Dalbergieae
  • Ocotea cernua (Peruvian Rosewood)
• Vauquelinia, a genus of the rose family (Rosaceae) that does not yield timber

[edit] Places

• Rosewood Center, also known as Rosewood State Hospital, a state-run institution in Owings Mills, Maryland for the retarded and mentally ill
• Rosewood, New South Wales, a village community in the south east part of the Riverina
• Rosewood, North Carolina
• Rosewood, Queensland, a small town in the Lockyer Valley
• Rosewood, Saskatoon, a subdivision of the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

[edit] Other

• Rosewood massacre, a racially-driven attack by whites on a small community of African Americans in central Florida in 1923
• Rosewood (film), a 1997 film about the Rosewood Massacre, directed by John Singleton

[edit] See also

• Rosenholz files, or "rosewood files", a collection of files with information on employees of one of the intelligence agencies of the former GDR