Blackwood

Blackwood may refer to:

Botany

• African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), a timber tree of Africa
• Australian blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), a tree of eastern Australia
• Malaysian blackwood (Diospyros ebonasea), a timber tree of Malaysia
• Bombay blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), a timber tree of India
• Acacia penninervis, a small tree or shrub of Australia

Place names

• Blackwood River, in Western Australia
• Blackwood, Victoria, Australia
• Blackwood, Georgia, an unincorporated community
• Blackwood, New Jersey, USA
• Blackwood, North Carolina, USA
• Blackwood, Virginia, USA
• Blackwood, Caerphilly, Wales, United Kingdom
• Blackwood, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
• Blackwood, Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, Scotland
• Blackwood, South Australia, suburb of Adelaide, Australia
• Coill Dubh, Ireland, also known as Blackwood

Fiction

• Blackwood, a fictional empire central to Charlie Martin's novel Shadowslayers
• Blackwood, a fictional racing circuit in the racing simulator Live for Speed
• Lord Henry Blackwood, a character in the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes
• Blackwood in Nancy drew and the mystery of the blackwood hall.
• House Blackwood of Raventree Hall, a noble house in George R. R. Martin's fantasy novel A Song of Ice and Fire

British Maritime

• HMS Blackwood, Royal Navy warship, named after Captain Henry Blackwood
• Blackwood class frigate, class of ship in the Royal Navy, also named after Captain Henry Blackwood

Other

• Blackwood (surname), a Scottish surname
• The Blackwood Brothers, a southern gospel music quartet
• Blackwood (film), a 1976 Canadian documentary film
• Blackwoods (film), a 2002 psychological thriller film
• Blackwood convention, a bidding agreement in contract bridge
• Blackwood's Magazine, a 19th-century British periodical
• Lincoln Blackwood, an American luxury pickup truck manufactured by Lincoln
• Blackwood (whisky distillery)

See also

• Black wood of grapevine, a bacterial disease