''Carapa procera'', called African crabwood, is a species of tree in the genus ''
Carapa
''Carapa'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mahogany family, Meliaceae. These are trees up to 30 meters tall occurring in tropical South America, Central America,Hogan, C. M. 2008Isthmian-Atlantic moist forests.Encyclopedia of Earth, World ...
'', native to the West African tropics and to the Amazon rainforest, and introduced to Vietnam.
Some authorities have split off the South American population into its own species, ''
Carapa surinamensis''.
The nuts are intensively collected in the wild for their oil, a
non-timber forest product
Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are useful foods, substances, materials and/or commodities obtained from forests other than timber. Harvest ranges from wild collection to farming. They typically include game animals, fur-bearers, nuts, seed ...
. In tropical Africa, the species is increasingly threatened.
References
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procera
Procera is a hypothetical clade of amphibians that includes salamanders and caecilians but not frogs. A close relationship between salamanders and caecilians is a competing hypothesis to the more widely supported view that salamanders and frogs a ...
Non-timber forest products
Plants described in 1824