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  2. African sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Mask from Gabon Two Chiwara c. late 19th early 20th centuries, Art Institute of Chicago.Female (left) and male, vertical styles. Most African sculpture from regions south of the Sahara was historically made of wood and other organic materials that have not survived from earlier than a few centuries ago, while older pottery figures are found from a number of areas.

  3. Central Zambezian miombo woodlands - Wikipedia

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    There are typically more evergreen trees than in most miombo woodlands. The classic miombo trees Brachystegia, Julbernardia, and Isoberlinia dominate the woodlands with other tree species such as Pterocarpus angolensis, Albizia sp. and Afzelia quanzensis. Under the trees lie important areas of plants such as the herbaceous Crotalaria and ...

  4. Nigerian lowland forests - Wikipedia

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    It is found in abundance in the lowland forest zones of Africa including Nigeria. [26] African Walnut (Lovoa trichilioides): This hardwood is prized for its use in furniture making and cabinetry and is also available in Nigerian lowland forests. [27] The Non-timber forest products from Nigerian lowland forests include:

  5. Entandrophragma excelsum - Wikipedia

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    Entandrophragma excelsum, is Africa's tallest indigenous tree native to tropical East Africa and occurs in eastern D.R.of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. This species is scattered in areas of upland semi-deciduous forest, in mid-elevation and montane rainforest , at (925 –) 1280 – 2150 metres elevation.

  6. List of Southern African indigenous trees and woody lianes

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    This is a list of Southern African trees, shrubs, suffrutices, geoxyles and lianes, and is intended to cover Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. [1] The notion of 'indigenous' is of necessity a blurred concept, and is clearly a function of both time and political boundaries.

  7. Dalbergia melanoxylon - Wikipedia

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    The trees are being harvested at an unsustainable rate, partly because of illegal smuggling of the wood into Kenya, but also because the tree takes upwards of 60 years to mature. African blackwood is often cited as one of the most expensive woods in the world, along with sandalwood, pink ivory, agarwood and ebony. [5] [6]

  8. Milicia excelsa - Wikipedia

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    Milicia excelsa is a tree species from the genus Milicia of the family Moraceae.Distributed across tropical Central Africa, it is one of two species (the other being Milicia regia) yielding timber commonly known as ọjị, African teak, iroko, intule, kambala, moreira, mvule, odum and tule.

  9. Afzelia africana - Wikipedia

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    Afzelia africana was used in the Middle Ages for ship building. [6] It is one of the traditional djembe woods. [7] The building of a reconstructed 9th-century Arab merchantman, the Jewel of Muscat, required thirty-eight tons of Afzelia africana wood, which was supplied from Ghana. Curved trees were chosen for the ship's frames and timbers. [8]

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