Toona occurs as genus of five or even sixer mintage of trees in the mahogany family Meliaceae, native from either eastern China south to India, southeast Asia and northern Australia.

Toona australis - Australian Redcedar Toona calantas - Kalantas or Philippine Mahogany Toona ciliata - Toon, Suren or Indian Mahogany Toona febrifuga - Vietnam Mahogany Toona sinensis - Chinese Mahogany or Chinese Toon Toona sureni - Suren or Indonesian Mahogany

Toona australis & T. ciliata come crucial timber trees, providing a worthful hardwood used for furniture, ornamental paneling, shipbuilding, etc. Several authorities address these deuce when a equivalent metal money, under a title T. ciliata.

Toona sinensis is of interest when by far a virtually all cold-tolerant metal money within the Meliaceae, native in China when far n when Forty°North in the Beijing area, where its caring shoots, known as xiangchun (), come the traditional local leaf vegetable. These are a lone member of the personal that may be cultivated with success inside northern Europe, where these are periodically planted as an ornamental tree in parks and avenues. Until recently, it got there are no far flung English most common title, though Chinese Mahogany (reflecting its botanic relationship) is nowadays utilized (e.g. Rushforth 1999).

Around older texts, the genus was typically incorporated in a wider circumscription of the related genus Cedrela, but that genus is nowadays restricted to mintage from either a New World.