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Diospyros tessellaria (black ebony, bois d'ebene noir or Mauritian ebony) is a species of tree in the family Ebenaceae.. The tree is one of several ebony species endemic to the island of Mauritius in the western Indian Ocean, and was once the most common, widespread ebony species of that island.
Mauritius Research and Innovation Council has a centre at Ebene where it has a ground station for its satellite MIR-SAT1. [2] [3] Mauritius Metro has been expanded to Ebene. [4] The Atal Bihari Vajpayee Tower (formerly Cyber Tower One) [5] [6] is a 12-storey, 72-metre-tall commercial building located in Ébène Cybercity.
The Gerald Durrell Endemic Wildlife Sanctuary, also known as GDEWS, [1] is an animal sanctuary founded in 1984, in Western Mauritius.It is an area closed off to the public, in the Black River Gorge region, which is densely forested, and is used for breeding rare, endemic Mauritian species.
The Valais Blacknose is a dual-purpose breed, reared for both meat and wool. The wool is coarse: fibre diameter averages approximately 38 microns, and staple length is 100 mm (4 in) or more.
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Like other species of ebony, this tree yields a dark black ebony wood. Consequently, it was severely exploited for wood and was decimated from much of its former range. It is now a threatened species and only survives in a few spots in the south-west of the island - around Bel Ombre, Mt Lion, and Perrier Nature Reserve - on exposed ridges and wet highland forest where it has escaped felling.
In fact, these two species were the only two primarily coastal or lowland species of Ebony in Mauritius. However, D.leucomelas usually grew at mid-altitudes, slightly further from the coast than its close relative. [2] Currently, D.leucomelas can still be found in the south-west of Mauritius, as well as in some of the mountainous areas in the ...
A black sheep stands out from the flock. The Black Sheep from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose by William Wallace Denslow. In the English language, black sheep is an idiom that describes a member of a group who is different from the rest, especially a family member who does not fit in.