''Calodendrum eickii'' is a rare forest tree from
Tanzania which is closely related to the widely cultivated ''
Calodendrum capense'', or Cape chestnut.
The tree is endemic to montane ''
Juniperus'' forest in the
West Usambara Mountains where it is under threat from expansion of commercial
pine plantations and
agricultural
Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating Plant, plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of Sedentism, sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of Domestication, domesticated species created food ...
development.
References
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Trees of Africa
Flora of Tanzania
Critically endangered plants
Zanthoxyloideae