(Toona)
Toona, commonly known as-redcedar,-toon-(also spelled-tun) or-toona, is a-genus-in the mahogany family,-Meliaceae, native from-Afghanistan-south to-India, and east to-North Korea,-Papua New Guinea-and eastern-Australia.-In older texts, the genus was often incorporated within a wider circumscription of the related genus-Cedrela, but that genus is now restricted to species from the-Americas.