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Pterocarpus indicus (commonly known as Amboyna wood, Malay padauk, Papua New Guinea rosewood, Philippine mahogany, Andaman redwood, Burmese rosewood, narra [3] (from Tagalog [4]) and asana in the Philippines, angsana, or Pashu padauk) is a species of Pterocarpus of the Sweet Pea Family (Papilionaceae) native to southeastern Asia, northern Australasia, and the western Pacific Ocean islands, in ...
[2] [3] Most species of Pterocarpus yield valuable timber traded as padauk (or padouk), usually pronounced / p ə ˈ d uː k / or / ˈ p æ d ˌ oʊ k /; [4] other common names are mukwa or narra. The west African species may be traded as African rosewood. [5] P. santalinus also yields the most precious red sandalwood in China known as Zitan.
Narra may refer to: Timber trees in the genus Pterocarpus, also known as padauk Pterocarpus indicus, a common species referred to as Narra; Narra, Palawan, a municipality in the Philippines; Narra, Bokaro, a census town in Jharkhand, India; Commander Narra, a fictional character from the Star Wars expanded universe; see List of minor Star Wars ...
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Lignum nephriticum cup made from the wood of the narra tree (Pterocarpus indicus), and a flask containing its fluorescent solution. Lignum nephriticum (Latin for "kidney wood") is a traditional diuretic that was derived from the wood of two tree species, the narra (Pterocarpus indicus) and the Mexican kidneywood (Eysenhardtia polystachya).
This is a large evergreen tree, with ascending branches spreading towards the tips. [2] Has more numerous leaflets than the similar Pterocarpus indicus. The leaflets are ovate-lanceolate and acuminate, with 5 to 8 pairs of conspicuous secondary nerves. The fruit pod is a winged achene or samara that is nearly hairless and about 5 cm in diameter ...
Panama tree: Sterculia apetala Paraguay: Lapacho: Handroanthus (whole genus) [56] Peru: Cinchona officinalis: Cinchona [57] Philippines: Narra: Pterocarpus indicus Poland: Oak, Pedunculate oak: Quercus, Quercus robur [58] Portugal: Cork oak: Quercus suber [59] Qatar: Christ's thorn jujube: Ziziphus spina-christi [60] Romania: Oak, Pedunculate ...
In the late nineteenth century, about 30% of Ethiopia was covered with forest. The clearing of land for agricultural use and the cutting of trees for fuel gradually changed the scene, and today forest areas have dwindled to less than 4% of Ethiopia's total land.