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Trees of Africa — tree species native to the diverse ecoregions of Africa. For the purposes of this category, "Africa" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), namely as one of the nine "botanical continents". See Category:Flora of Africa for a map.
Diospyros crassiflora, commonly known as Gaboon ebony, African ebony, Cameroon ebony, Nigeria ebony, [3] West African ebony, [4] and Benin ebony [5] is a species of lowland-rainforest tree in the family Ebenaceae that is endemic to Western Africa.
The tree is known to the Yoruba as ìrókò, logo or loko and is believed to have healing properties. [5] Iroko is known to the Igbo people as ọjị wood. [6] It is one of the woods sometimes referred to as African teak, [7] although it is unrelated to the teak family. The wood colour is initially yellow but darkens to a richer copper brown ...
Ba = listed in Ross Bayton's The Gardener's Botanical [5] Bu = listed in Lotte Burkhardt's Index of Eponymic Plant Names [6] CS = listed in both Allen Coombes's The A to Z of Plant Names [7] and Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners G = listed in David Gledhill's The Names of Plants [8] St = listed in Stearn's Dictionary of Plant ...
Because of its history of glacial epochs, and also the strong seasonality of rainfall, the West African forest zone is not nearly so rich in plant species as other tropical forest areas. There are, however, many species unique to the area, and numerous valuable plants native to the region, including such timber trees as iroko (Chlorophora excelsa).
The tree grows to over 30 m in height and 1 m in diameter. [3] The wood is pale yellow to almost white in color and used mainly for furniture making, interior joinery, domestic items, canoes, and musical instruments. It has low density (0.5 g/cm 3) and is very soft (Monnin hardness 1.3), [4] with a spongy, fibrous texture.
The name sapele comes from that of the city of Sapele in Nigeria, where there is a preponderance of the tree.African Timber and Plywood (AT&P), a division of the United Africa Company, had a factory at this location where the wood, along with Triplochiton scleroxylon, Obeche, mahogany, and Khaya was processed into timber which was then exported from the Port of Sapele worldwide.
Dalbergia melanoxylon (African blackwood, grenadilla, or mpingo) in French Granadille d'Afrique is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to seasonally dry regions of Africa from Senegal east to Eritrea, to southern regions of Tanzania to Mozambique and south to the north-eastern parts of South Africa.