bloodwood 
noun
Any of a number of hardwood trees with deep red timber.
- An Australian gum tree (genus Eucalyptus, family Myrtaceae, in particular E. gummifera). A tree of the Old World tropics (genus Pterocarpus, family Leguminosae), including kiaat..
- The homestead museum sits secluded among the bloodwoods, nutwoods and cabbage gums.
- The inlaws do the carving of the Pukumani poles which are made from the bloodwood tree, then painted with ochres and erected around the grave.