Rosewood (disambiguation)

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Rosewood refers to a number of richly hued timbers. Rosewood may also refer to:

Events

  • Rosewood massacre, a 1923, violent, racially motivated conflict in rural Levy County, Florida, United States

Art, entertainment, and media

Enterprises

  • Rosewood Center, also known as Rosewood State Hospital, a state-run institution in Owings Mills, Maryland, for the mentally handicapped and mentally ill
  • Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, a luxury hotel company based in Hong Kong and Los Angeles
  • Rosewood Hotel Group, parent company of Rosewood Hotels & Resorts. Also owned New World and penta brands

Plants and plant extracts

  • Rosewood, a common name for shrubs of the genus Vauquelinia (these do not yield wood)
  • Rosewood oil, a valuable essential oil, extracted from the wood of Aniba rosaeodora
  • African rosewood, several species

Colour

  • Rosewood was one of the original colours of pink Cadillacs, along with desert sand

Geography

Australia

Canada

United States

Fictional places

See also

  • Rosenholz files, or "rosewood files", a collection of files with information on employees of one of the intelligence agencies of the former GDR