Rosewood (disambiguation)

Rosewood (disambiguation)

__NOTOC__Rosewood may refer to:

Plants

* Rosewood, 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

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, Florida, a ghost town
* Rosewood, North Carolina
* Rosewood, Ohio
* Rosewood, Queensland, a small town in the Lockyer Valley
* Rosewood, Saskatoon, a subdivision of the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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

ee also

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


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