Help Identifying Live Edge Slab

[mental patio]

I recently got a live edge slab from a very good friend who does tree service. He told me he did some storm cleanup down in the Florida Keys when the Hurricanes hit and they came across a bunch of fallen old growth Mahogany trees. He gave them to a lumber yard to skip dress them and he gave me one of the slabs as a birthday gift. I just wanted a 2nd opinion if this is actually real Mahogany or if its another species

[stiff sonnet]

Real mahogany is a complicated term, but it looks like a mahogany species to me

[mental patio]

Like the original 3 Honduran, Mexican, and Cuban

I was curious if it might be something else

[stiff sonnet]

yes, i would guess one of those

as far as Im aware none of the others grow in any significant number in the US

[mental patio]

I'm planning to turn this into a desk and I do have some woodworking skills but I would like opinions and advice on how to finish it and make something unique

[mental patio]

yeah and as I reside in Florida its also protected so you can't really cut it down without requesting a permit from your local city

so it's really sparsely availble but I've also seen people claim Sapele as being real mahogany

[spare plume]

Welcome to the server, but would you please fix your pronouns field in you profile per server rule 1? You can set it for just this server in the settings

[mental patio]

my apologies

[spare plume]

There’s this nifty chart on mahogany: https://www.wood-database.com/wp-content/uploads/mahogany-families.pdf

[mental patio]

yeah I've seen that chart and watched a couple of videos on it I wanna say that my slab is in the Swietnia Genus

but which one I have no clue I wanna say Honduran but at the same time Cuban makes a lot of sense because the spanish did build a lot of ships in FL and they had Mahogany plantations down there before they were forgotten to time