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Black Ironwood ''
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Black ironwood is a common name for several plants and may refer to: * '' Allagoptera caudescens'', '' Borassus flabellifer'', ''Caryota urens'', '' Iriartea deltoidea'' Black Palm, Palmira wood * ''Colophospermum mopane'' * '' Krugiodendron ferreum'', a species of tree found in the Americas * '' Olea capensis'', a species of tree found in afromontane forests throughout Africa * ''Olea woodiana'' * ''Picrodendron baccatum'' * ''Rothmannia capensis'' * ''Sloanea dentata ''Sloanea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the Family (biology), family Elaeocarpaceae, comprising about 150 species. Species include: * ''Sloanea acutiflora'' Uittien * ''Sloanea assamica'' Alfred Rehder, Rehder & E. Wilson * ''Sloanea aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ironwood
Ironwood is a common name for many woods or plants that have a reputation for hardness, or specifically a wood density that is heavier than water (approximately 1000 kg/m3, or 62 pounds per cubic foot), although usage of the name ironwood in English may or may not indicate a tree that yields such heavy wood. Some of the species with their common name * ''Acacia aulacocarpa'' (Brush ironwood) * ''Acacia estrophiolata'' (Southern ironwood), central Australia * ''Acacia excelsa'' (Ironwood) * '' Acacia melanoxylon'' (Ironwood) * ''Acacia stenophylla'' (Ironwood), Australia * ''Aegiphila martinicensis'' (Ironwood) * ''Afzelia africana'' (Ironwood) * ''Androstachys johnsonii'' (Lebombo ironwood), southeastern Africa and Madagascar * ''Allagoptera caudescens'', ''Borassus flabellifer'', '' Caryota urens'', ''Iriartea deltoidea'' Black Palm, Palmira wood (Black ironwood) * ''Argania spinosa'' (Morocco ironwood, Thorny, Prickly ironwood) * ''Astronium fraxinifolium'', ''Astronium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allagoptera Caudescens
''Allagoptera caudescens'' is a species of flowering plant in the palm family endemic to Brazil, where it is known as buri palm.Uhl, Natalie W. and Dransfield, John (1987) ''Genera Palmarum - A classification of palms based on the work of Harold E. Moore''. Lawrence, Kansas: Allen Press. / The older name ''Polyandrococos'' combines the Greek words for "many" and "anther" with the name of another palm genus '' Cocos'', and the epithet is Latin for "bearlike", referring to the hairy tomentum.Riffle, Robert L. and Craft, Paul (2003) ''An Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms''. Portland: Timber Press. / It was formerly classified as ''Polyandrococos caudescens'', the only species in the genus ''Polyandrococos''. Description The trunks are rough and solitary natured, and reach over 10 m at 20 cm wide, usually covered in old leaf bases. The sheath is tubular, splitting adaxially, striate, and covered in white and brown tomentum. The petiole is short, deeply channeled, flattened be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borassus Flabellifer
''Borassus flabellifer'', commonly known as doub palm, palmyra palm, tala or tal palm, toddy palm, wine palm or ice apple, is native to South Asia (especially in Bangladesh & South India) and Southeast Asia. It is reportedly naturalized in Socotra and parts of China. Description ''Borassus flabellifer'' is a robust tree and can reach a height of . The trunk is grey, robust and ringed with leaf scars; old leaves remain attached to the trunk for several years before falling cleanly. The leaves are fan-shaped and long, with robust black teeth on the petiole margins. Like all ''Borassus'' species, ''B. flabellifer'' is dioecious with male and female flowers on separate plants. The male flowers are less than long and form semi-circular clusters, which are hidden beneath scale-like bracts within the catkin-like inflorescences. In contrast, the female flowers are golfball-sized and solitary, sitting upon the surface of the inflorescence axis. After pollination, these blooms develop i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caryota Urens
''Caryota urens'' is a species of flowering plant in the palm family, native to Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar and Malaysia (perhaps elsewhere in Indo-Malayan region), where they grow in fields and rainforest clearings, it is regarded as introduced in Cambodia. The epithet ''urens'' is Latin for "stinging" alluding to the chemicals in the fruit. Common names in English include solitary fishtail palm, kitul palm, toddy palm, wine palm, sago palm and jaggery palm. Its leaf is used as fishing rod after trimming the branches of the leaf and drying. According to Monier-Williams, it is called ''moha-karin'' ("delusion maker") in Sanskrit. It is one of the sugar palms. Description ''Caryota urens'' species is a solitary-trunked tree that can measure in height and up to wide. Widely spaced leaf-scar rings cover its gray trunk which culminate in a wide, 6 m tall leaf crown. The bipinnate leaves are triangular in shape, bright to deep green, long, and held on long petioles. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iriartea Deltoidea
''Iriartea'' is a genus in the palm family Arecaceae, native to Central and South America. The best-known species – and probably the only one – is ''Iriartea deltoidea'', which is found from Nicaragua, south into Bolivia and a great portion of Western Amazonian basin. It is the most common tree in many forests in which it occurs. Names It is known by such names as ''bombona'' (which can also refer to other palms, e.g. '' Attalea regia'') or ''cacho de vaca'' (which can refer to many other plants, like the Bignoniaceae ''Godmania aesculifolia'' or the orchid '' Myrmecophila humboldtii''). In the Murui Huitoto language of southwestern Colombia, it is called ''jɨagɨna'' or ''jɨaìgɨna'',Marín-Corba ''et al.'' (2005) in western Ecuador it is known as ''pambil'', and in Peru it is known as the ''pona'' palm. Description These palms are canopy trees growing to 20–35 m tall. ''I. deltoidea'' is easily recognized by the prominent bulge in the center of its trunk, and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colophospermum Mopane
''Colophospermum mopane'', commonly called mopane, mopani, balsam tree, butterfly tree, or turpentine tree, is a tree in the legume family (Fabaceae), that grows in hot, dry, low-lying areas, in elevation, in the far northern parts of southern Africa. The tree only occurs in Africa and is the only species in genus ''Colophospermum''. Its distinctive butterfly-shaped (bifoliate) leaf and thin seed pod make it easy to identify. In terms of human use it is, together with camel thorn and leadwood, one of the three regionally important firewood trees. Range and habit It is native to Southern Africa, including Southern Angola, Zambia, Southern Malawi, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and northern South Africa. It grows in alkaline (high lime content) soils which are shallow and not well drained. It also grows in alluvial soils (soil deposited by rivers). Where it occurs, it is often the dominant tree species, frequently forming homogeneous stands. In Northern So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krugiodendron Ferreum
''Krugiodendron ferreum'', commonly known as the black ironwood or leadwood, is a species of tree in the family Rhamnaceae. It is found in southern Florida, throughout the Caribbean and from southern Mexico to Honduras. Originally described by Martin Vahl, its specific epithet is the Latin adjective ''ferreus'' (" iron-like"). Taxonomy It is the only species in the genus ''Krugiodendron''. The genus name honors Leopold Krug (1833–1898). The common names for this species refer to its dense wood. Description Typical air-dry samples have densities of approximately 1.30 g/cm3, and up to 1.42 g/cm3.Record, S. ''Tropical Woods'', Vol. 8. 1926 () The tree reaches in height with oppositely arranged, emarginate leaves and small greenish flowers. The fruit is a drupe In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is an indehiscent fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the ''pit'', ''stone'', or '' pyrena'') of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olea Capensis
''Olea capensis'', the black ironwood, is an African tree species in the olive family Oleaceae. It is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa: from the east in Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan, south to the tip of South Africa, and west to Cameroon, Sierra Leone and the islands of the Gulf of Guinea, as well as Madagascar and the Comoros. It occurs in bush, littoral scrub and evergreen forest. Other common names in English include ironwood, ironwood olive, East African olive and Elgon olive. Description The black ironwood is a bushy shrub, or a small to medium-sized tree, up to in height, occasionally reaching . *Bark: light grey, becoming dark grey and vertically fissured with age; a characteristic blackish gum is exuded from bark wounds. *Leaves: light to dark green and glossy above and paler green below; petiole often purplish, 0.3–1.7 cm long; lanceolate-oblong to almost circular, 3–10 x 1.5–5 cm. *Flowers: white or cream and sweetly scented, small and in many flowe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olea Woodiana
''Olea woodiana'', known commonly as the forest olive or black ironwood ( Afrikaans: ''Bosolienhout''), is an African tree species belonging to the olive family ( Oleaceae). The tree grows in lower altitude hill forests from Kenya, Tanzania, Eswatini, and South Africa. Description ''Olea woodiana'' is a medium-sized to tall tree. The axillary or terminal inflorescences carry small white flowers that are fragrant. . accessed 2.2.2013 Fruit are produced from late summer. They are oval-shaped and ripen to a purple black colour, when they are consumed by birds. Subspecies There are two recognized |
Picrodendron Baccatum
''Picrodendron'' is a genus of plant belonging to the family Picrodendraceae described as a genus in 1859. ''Picrodendron'' contains only one known species, ''Picrodendron baccatum'', native to the West Indies ( Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Swan Islands of Honduras).Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192. See also *Taxonomy of the Picrodendraceae As the family Picrodendraceae is erected from the bases of subfamily Oldfieldioideae, its taxonomy remains the same: Tribe Caletieae There are 4 subtribes and 13 genera: :Subtribe Dissiliariinae ::''Austrobuxus'' (also ''Buraeavia'', ''Bureaua ... References Picrodendraceae Monotypic Malpighiales genera {{Malpighiales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rothmannia Capensis
''Rothmannia capensis'' is a South African tree belonging to the Rubiaceae, usually about 5 m high in the open, but reaching 20 m under forest conditions. It occurs from the south-western Cape Province along the coastal regions and inland to the Waterberg and Soutpansberg in the Transvaal. It is a common tree on the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. It produces abundant sweetly fragrant flowers in summer, and these are followed by smooth, dark green spherical fruits about 80mm in diameter. The blackish bark has a distinctive rectangular pattern of fine cracks. The genus was named for Göran Rothman Göran (Georg) Rothman (30 November 1739, in Husebybruk, Småland, Sweden – 3 December 1778, in Stockholm), was a Swedish naturalist, physician and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. His father, Johan Stensson Rothman, was a teacher of Logic ... (1739–1778) by Thunberg – both were pupils of Linnaeus. External links Apostles of Linnaeus* Trees of South Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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